Every other Saturday, a busy hubbub of farmers, dealers and animals gathers in Norwich in a scene which echoes back thousands of years. The industry, already weakened by the BSE crisis, was forced to its knees in , when Foot and Mouth disease closed the Hall Road market, among many others.

But while others re-opened and failed, the resurgent Norwich Livestock Market has gone from strength, particularly in recent years as more animal testing requirements to halt the spread of bovine tuberculosis TB in other parts of the country has generated more demand for low-risk cattle.

It came to head in , when the landowner, businessman Graham Dacre — who bought the site in and leased it back to the city council on a year lease — imposed strict parking restrictions after revealing a long-term desire to develop the site, which he said is still his goal. Chairman Stephen Lutkin said: The stock numbers are increasing every year. But it would not close the market. We would work around that. There is a business aspect and a social aspect that a lot of people missed.

Penelope Lucas, one of the shareholders of the market, said: Norfolk and Suffolk are very sparsely populated and the agricultural heritage we have still got many smallholdings and they need somewhere to liquidate their assets.

One person who remembers the previous market venue below Norwich Castle is year-old David Pond, from Swardeston, who has been a regular at the cattle sales ever since , when he worked as a clerk for auctioneering firm Irelands. They used to go along King Street and particularly Ber Street and occasionally cars would get dented by cattle going past, so it was not really conducive for cattle to be in the centre of a busy city.

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It was not before time that the new market was built up in Harford Hall Road. In there were five different banks had premises down there at the opening stage. Wives were dropped into Norwich to do a bit of shopping and the husbands came to the market.

People came from all over Norfolk and Suffolk, and it was not just cattle and sheep, there were pigs, calves and poultry — everything. Other firms had store cattle and they were sold in bunches. In the middle of the s there were so many cattle on Acle Marshes and by the River Waveney, we had so much stock that we had three or four buyers coming over from Holland. Positioned at the centre of a productive agricultural area, Norwich was an important centre for trade for many centuries.

The Saxon market was located in the Tombland area of the city, and after the Norman Conquest of , a new market was established in the area known as the Mancroft.

Fish, meat, cloth, vegetables, shoes, livestock and many other items were all sold. By the end of the s, the market was becoming very congested and in the livestock market was moved to the Castell Dykes, which is the area below the castle mound. A major redevelopment in Norwich city centre in the s with the building of City Hall, prompted the need for another move, which eventually happened in when the site at Harford opened at the same time as new markets in Shrewsbury and Gloucester, which have since closed.

Now, it hosts fortnightly cattle and sheep markets, regular auctions of Fur and Feather, machinery, and rare breeds, and an annual Christmas poultry sale. Search hundreds of local jobs at Jobs This site uses cookies.

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