
Tag: market



Stockton-on-Tees photos: street market scenes, rain, walking barrels and bargain hunters, Dec 2018
A market town in County Durham, Stockton-on-Tees is famous for its associations with the friction match and the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which operated the world’s first steam-hauled passenger train in …
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Hamburg photos: signs, stickers, street art, street markets and The Monochrome Set
Here’s a selection of photographs taken around Hamburg earlier this year. Once again, I was back in the city with my band, The Monochrome Set, although this time it was …
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Christmas lights in the November rain, drag queen karaoke and street views – a trip to Cardiff in photos
Once again, Cardiff lived up to its reputation as Britain’s wettest city, with my two days in the capital being accompanied by a near-incessant drizzle. Being Welsh, I’m used to the …
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A mighty big Bavarian Christmas Market: December in Aschaffenburg, Germany
They don’t mess about when it comes to Christmas markets in Bavaria, and earlier this month I was lucky enough to pay a flying visit to the Aschaffenburg Christmas market in southern …
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Christmas lights at London’s delightful Leadenhall Market
Designed in 1881 by Sir Horace Jones (also the architect of Billingsgate and Smithfield Markets), Leadenhall Market in the City of London is a wonderful piece of architecture, and it …
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Neukölln Flomarkt photos – a wonderfully offbeat Berlin fleamarket
Located in the rapidly hipsterfying district of Neukölln in south-east Berlin is the Flomarkt, a fantastic flea market with a rich mix of secondhand clothes, old electronics, new art, handmade item, bric-a-brac …
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Photo feature – Turkish Market, Maybachufer in Berlin Neukölln, Germany
Taking place every Tuesday and Friday in Berlin is the Turkish Market in Maybachufer, Neukölln. Open from 11am to 6.30pm, it’s a great place to buy some great food and rake in the …
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Photos of Cardiff Central Market, a Victorian indoor market in the Castle Quarter, Wales
Located in the heart of Cardiff’s city centre is this wonderful indoor market, selling a wide variety of fresh produce, cooked food, delicacies, vinyl records and all manner of useful household …
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Photos of Union Square Farmers’ Market and Holiday Market, New York
Whenever I’m in New York, I always take a walk through the Union Square farmers’ market where there’s plenty of fresh fruit,veg and snacks to be bought. The market is …
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Brixton Village and Market Row Brixton win Market of the Year award
The National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA) have awarded their ‘Best Private Market’ accolade to Brixton Village and Market Row.
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Christmas lights get turned on at Roman Road market, east London, Mrs Mills Experience provide the music
On Saturday the Mrs Mills Experience were invited back to play the Roman Road street market in London’s East End, this time to entertain the shoppers before the Christmas lights were turned on.
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Mrs Mills Experience entertain the shoppers in the East End’s Roman Road street market
On Saturday afternoon we played a rather unusual gig, with the band being plonked in the middle of an East End street market and being asked to perform for Channel Four who …
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Pearly Queens and Pie & Mash, Roman Rd Market, East London
I snapped these three, rather dapper, young pearlies on Roman Road Market in Bow, East London, E3 last Saturday. Pearly Kings and Queens (aka pearlies) are an organised charitable tradition of working …
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Brixton Christmas market packs them in, Saturday 10th December
With Christmas fast approaching, Saturday saw Brixton stuffed full of shoppers, with several new markets offering gift ideas. There was a vintage market at the Living Bar and the Crafty Fox …
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Red, orange and green: winter at Union Square market, NYC
Four colourful photos from the fabulous Farmers Market at Union Square, Manhattan, New York.
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A walk down Petticoat Lane Market, London E1
One of the oldest surviving markets in Britain, records show that second hand clothes and bric-a-brac were being sold and exchanged around Petticoat Lane as far back as 1608.
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Lost Brixton: Brixton Station Road market and John’s Cafe
Back in 2000, the only “vintage” clothes you could buy in central Brixton were of the old fashioned, second hand, cheap-as-chips variety, with a bustling Brixton Station Road market being the most popular shopping …
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Union Square Greenmarket – Farmers’ Market in New York
Last week, I took another look around the busy farmers’ market in Union Square, New York City. If you’re looking for apples in the Big Apple, this is the place to …
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Save Our Shops – Brixton Village battles against rent hikes
Just as Brixton Village (aka Granville Arcade) starts to get going after years of under-use, the owners have started to try and price locals out.
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Brixton Market: five signs
Five shots of signs in Brixton Market (formerly Granville Arcade)…
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Brixton Village on a Saturday
The old Granville Arcade (now renamed Brixton Village) was a moribund place for many years but thanks to a recent initiative to offer the empty shop units rent-free to artists, …
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Greenwich – Naval College & Market
Continuing our walk from the O2 dome around the Greenwich Peninsula, we walked around the Royal Naval College, before popping into the excellent Greenwich Market for some fresh bread, cheese …
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