Billingsgate Fish Market: 'You can't wipe it out overnight'

"There will always be a place to buy fish from in London. It might not be here and it probably won't be called Billingsgate but it will continue."Tony Lyons is the chairman of the London Fish Merchants Association, which represents the tenants, and is confident the trade has a future."I'd like to see another market like this and we all go together, and I think that's the general consensus.

Scott, whose father used to work at Old Billingsgate, added: "I left school at 14 and came to work as a shopboy with my father and we built the business up.He hopes a way can be found to "continue supplying London and Essex with the finest fresh fish in the world".Chris Lark, who has worked there for eight years, says: "It will be really sad to see this place shut down.He added: "It's such a good laugh down here, with good people. They all look after each other.

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