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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 Pop-Up Market at the Brixton Dogstar, while a resurgent Brixton Station Road played host to the Makers Market. Here’s some late afternoon photos:
Four colourful photos from the fabulous Farmers Market at Union Square, Manhattan, New York.
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.
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 destination for thrifty shoppers.
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.
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, the place is veritably buzzing on Saturdays.
Here’s a few photos:
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 and olives:
Formerly occupied by the pre-Tudor ‘Palace at Greenwich’ of 1428, the current buildings were planned by Sir Christopher Wren with various big name architects like Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh and James ‘Athenian’ Stuart completing the job during the first half of the eighteenth century .
Old fella checking out the sights.
In the food market.
The temporary 60m high Greenwich Wheel in front of the Pepy’s Building Visitor Centre stands taller than Nelson’s Column and offers panoramic views across London.
Greenwich Church St.
