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Date of photo: 1985	Picture source: CAMRA East London & City Records
The Newmarket was situated at 26 Smithfield Street. This was a traditional Smithfield Market pub which opened at 6.30am for the market workers. When I drank there in the early 1990s the landlord was a former landlord of the Katherine Wheel, and a pre-decimal price list from his former pub was on display. This pub closed in 2006 and is now a more modern bar called 26 Smithfield aimed at business customers.
Colin Price (May 2011)
Now used as a restaurant called Bird Of Smithfield.
Colin Price (May 2014)
At the time of construction this was the most recent pub to grace Smithfield Market and was therefore called The New Market. The name was later changed to The Newmarket
T C (June 2017)
I drank in the New Market from the late 80’s until it closed as a proper pub.  I would go there after a night shift and it was always really lively first thing in the morning with the market porters, complete with blood-stained aprons and rubber boots,  city  types having a quick one before work and other assorted night workers like myself winding down before going home to bed.  At that time it was run by a lovely Lebanese guy with a long ponytail, I think his name was Mario.  He later moved to the Hope in nearby Cowcross  Street.  You could always pick up meat cheaply off the porters in the pub if you knew them.  You just told them what you wanted and they’d go and get it for you at wholesale prices and always the best quality.
Fergy Campbell (May 2020)
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Date of photo: 2014	Picture source: Colin Price
	Picture source: Darkstar
Date of photo: 2005	Picture source: Fergy Campbell