European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine of pm my Hub by it x�5&4 Max a tar0"mt 3v in a is of �2 ,. \. Isa ii i & fish Are unloaded in morning fog at Billingsgate with Tower Bridge in the background. Now you see it soon you won t by Robert d. Hershey new York times Billingsgate London s colourful fish Market that has occupied the same site on the thames near Tower Bridge for at least 1,100years, is being forced to move. The bustling wholesale Arena whose name has come into the language As a synonym for foul language is being slowly strangled by 20th-Century traffic. Within afew years it will follow the covent Garden vegetable and Flower Market to the Boondocks and anonymity. We Don t really want to move but it la soon be impossible for a Chap to Cross the Road said Raymond t. By Waters a Veteran fish merchant As activity in the vast Gri Rny victorian Hall began to subside one morning. Lower thames Street now badly congested is to remade a dual Highway. But there is another reason for the decision As Well the fear that the cracked centuries old building might col lapse if there is a Power failure in the cold storage system. Ice to preserve the fish has become an integral part of the Structure. Government planners have been obliged to make Little More than perfunctory bows to tradition and have seized upon a Chance to build a new fish Market that might help revive London s desolate docklands. Many people would naturally regret the ending of the historic Market at Billingsgate said one Whitehall bureaucrat. But i think it must be generally recognize that the move would give the Opportunity to improve the local environment and to realize the great potential of the dockland  but while the politicians argue about who is to pay Forand run the new quarters the City of London Corpora Tion has been charged with operating the Market since1400 and is reluctant to lose its authority some 250 tons of fish continue to change hands at the Market each Day. This is roughly Only a third of the Trade done in the Days before fish was Frozen or pre filleted but Billingsgate merchants say it remains the world s largest wholesale Market. Its strength is in the selection it provides its restaurant and catering service customers some 45 varieties Are handled regularly including  come from nearly All the ports of Britain and from Scandinavia the continent and even the far East. Most Are sold by the Stone a measure equal to 14pounds but the Premium fish such As sole and turbot Are measured in  since the 1930s have fish actually been landed there by boat. They come by truck either directly fro fishing ports or from rail terminals to which they have been sent during the night. Fish everywhere worker scowls As he passes a Tail protruding from a Box. Sunday september 17, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 9