Harborough Market Traders Back Campaign to be named Best Market Town Market Harborough has been entered into a national competition looking for Britain’s best high street. A winning entry would see the town receive thousands of pounds for investment. The Great British High Street Awards is now in its third year and is a nationwide…
Earlier this month Harborough Market joined the crème de la crème of Leicester’s business community at a lavish ceremony, where their exceptional accomplishments in turning the market into a thriving community location being acknowledge. Market Place was thrilled to collect their third award in less than a year, winning ‘Retail Business of the Year’ for…
Named as Britain’s Best Small Indoor Market 2016, winner of the Niche Magazine Business Award for Best Independent Retailer and recently named as the location for the 2016 Midlands Love Your Local Market Roadshow on March 15th, it’s easy to forget that only two years ago the picture was a very different one for Harborough…
Over the past ten years, shopping has undergone a dramatic change, triggered by the rise of online shopping, discount retailers and out of town retail parks. In 2013, Asda, which is owned by American retail giant Walmart, participated in the UK’s version of Black Friday, with most of the major retailers such as Marks &…
Market Place were very proud to deliver the very First Food and Drink Festival for Market Harborough over the Bank Holiday weekend, set in the beautiful Welland Park. The Festival was the brain child of Nick Rhodes Chief Executive of Market Place and Sairah Butt Market Manager of the Towns Market Hall which is operated…
Search your attic! Dig out that buried treasure! Dust off the family heirlooms! Gildings Auctioneers and Valuers, the region’s leading saleroom for Works of Art, Antiques, Furniture, Jewellery and Collectables, have teamed up with Harborough Market to bring you a regular monthly valuation day. Starting on Wednesday 15th July at Harborough Market on Northampton Road,…
Are you curious about how much your antiques are worth? Perhaps you want to know a little more about them? If so, why not come along to Harborough Market, on Northampton Road, on Wednesday 20th May between 11am and 2pm and have your items valued for free by BBC TV presenter and antiques specialist Kate…
Harborough Market shoppers will be taken on a trip down memory lane on Saturday 7th March when the market is visited by local amateur video and film making group, Market Harborough Movie Makers. The group, who have been making documentary films of local interest since the early 1960s, will be bringing their back catalogue of…
Harborough Farmers Market traders Nice Pies expect their award winning, traditional and exotic meat pies to be in even more demand after an appearance on Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty’s Friday Night Feast last week. Kath Walmsley, husband Phil and their daughter Aimi – the family behind Old Dalby based company Nice Pie, were visited…
Thousands of happy shoppers enjoyed a dusting of Christmas cheer at Harborough Market’s late night Christmas Market on Friday 5th December. Harborough’s late night Christmas Fayre saw crowds flock in to the town centre for an evening of shopping, good food and entertainment. Almost 13,000 shoppers visited the market, which is operated by Market Place…