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Borough Market This is a list of markets in London. Greater London is home to a wealth of covered, outdoor and street markets. Many specialise in a particular type of goods or sell different things on different days. Most open very early in the morning and close early or late afternoon. Markets in London have their origins in the Middle Ages and ancient charter; set up to serve the population ...
The large number of street markets in London is due to the 1327 granting of market rights to the City of London. This allowed the city to control the establishment of markets within a radius of six and two thirds miles [10.7 km] being the distance a person could be expected to walk to market, sell his produce and return in a day . [ 2 ]
Benedetta's The Street Markets of London makes only a passing reference to Inverness Street Market indicating that it was trading on weekdays only with mostly fruit and vegetables to purchase. [6] Latterly a successful boxing trainer, George Francis worked on Inverness Street Market in the 1940s. [7]
On Saturdays the market made the footway impassable. [2] In the 1930s the market was still predominately fruit and vegetables with traders buying their goods wholesale at Covent Garden Market then retailing them to local households. At this time the market had about 200 stalls. [3] [4] After the second world war the market had substantially ...
Petticoat Lane Market is a fashion and clothing market in Spitalfields, London. It consists of two adjacent street markets. It consists of two adjacent street markets. Wentworth Street Market is open six days a week [ 1 ] and Middlesex Street Market is open on Sunday only.
A street market or open-air market, [1] with alternative names such as: market square and sometimes charity market, in cases where the sale is made for charity reasons, is a market that is set up on certain days of the week, generally on the street in open-air places; they are usually located in public places or ceded by the town council of the locality such as squares, avenues, parking lots, etc.
Chapel Market is a daily street market in Islington, London. The market is located on a street of the same name near Angel, and sells fruit, vegetables and fish, as well as bargain household goods and cheap clothes. It is open every day except Monday, operating in the mornings only on Thursday and Sunday.
Whitechapel Road market, also known as Whitechapel Market [3] is a long-established historic London outdoor street market managed by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which is centered on the A11 thoroughfare of the same name in Whitechapel in the East End of London, next to Whitechapel station and is the focus point of the Whitechapel Market Conservation Area that was set up in 1997 and ...