Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
I don't remember the names but some of the old markets in Berlin were truly magical, especially around christmas!
Yes! Christmas markets will win EVERY TIME!
I don't remember the names but some of the old markets in Berlin were truly magical, especially around christmas!
I also visit both those markets. Have bought most of my hats from Earland Brother's stall at Loughborough.?
Loughborough street market Loughborough is my hometown.Used to visit most Saturdays Haven't been for several months due to pandemic I believe it’s still taking place will have to check
Market Bosworth monthly farmers although not that big usually has a good range of products.
This must be the best market
https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/newmarket/
I liked Watford Market before it got moved to some shipping containers next to the flyover. I wasn't a great market exactly but it was nearby and for some stuff it beat shopping elsewhere. On Saturday I'd buy nuts and dry stuff (rice and couscous etc.), sometimes fruit and vegetables. I liked going to the Yummy Chinese restaurant for lunch (lunch was all you could get, it closed in the early afternoon). It was run by these very old women, place looked like it hadn't changed since the 70s. I'd have a main course- usually the same thing- and a bottle of Calsberg for less than a tenner. They had the most limited range of desserts (like apple fritter or banana fritter). It was the greatest.
Norwich market is better than ever and has low bar for new traders to try out for a week or so.Camden market was great many years ago but not now. Norwich had a good market as well but not been in years.
Norwich market is better than ever.
The established traders in fruit, veg, fish, meat cheese and dried goods are still there alongside the vacune cleaner parts guy, the foam guy and the habidashiry lady. Lucys chips is joined by a swathe of street food vendors inc aranchini stall and home made lasagne.
I adopt a use it or lose it policy when it comes to small local traders
I remember Newcastle's Grainger Market from my childhood. It had quite a distinctive smell. Men in white coats would emerge from the fog of diesel fumes on Grainger St. with animal carcasses on their shoulders, and a man would shout "Ronnie Gill" which apparently helped to sell newspapers.