to set up another market on a new site, and in 1756, it began again on a 4.5-acre (18,000 m²) site in Rochester Yard. During the 19th century, it became one of London's most important food markets due to its strategic position near the riverside wharves of the Pool of London.

By the mid-1990s, the market had declined, and trustees decided to revive it as a retail rather than a wholesale market. In 1998 they invited Henrietta Green to