Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Municipal Archives brings you the history of the Municipal Abattoir, the official city slaughterhouse. It might seem strange to citizens today, but a municipal ...

Slaughterman David Partridge can’t answer when I ask what his abattoir smells like. “I can’t smell anything,” he explains, suggesting, slightly irritably, that once I get in there, I should tell him.

Because of the nature of the job done there, an abbattoir is expected to be messy,but the operators are expected to make it clean at all times. It seems this is not so with the Agege,Lagos abbattoir, ...

The abattoir has been an ongoing concern for artists since its inception, from Lovis Corinth’s 1893 painting In the Slaughter House, to Chaim Soutine’s gristly Carcass of Beef (1925). Aria Dean’s ...