The last of the great old blood and guts markets in London, Smithfield, is to close completely after eight busy, noisy centuries. King Edward III gave it the freedom to open in 1327.

The waiting room of Istanbul’s Sirkeci train station, built for the Orient Express in the 1850s, seems an unusual place to ...

Probably no human activity is more hunger-provoking than shopping, and that makes Black Friday the hungriest day of the year.