WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS! The lockdown months have been tough, but as always our great industry has come through the dark months and is working hard to serve the public. Market Trade News is no different and our thousands of readers in market places and market halls across the land will be pleased to hear…
New home for Barnsley’s Markets Barnsley’s historic Markets will be rehoused in a £120m retail development complex which has been named The Glass Works. The Glass Works is located on a 3.8 hectare site around Cheapside and will provide a 590,000 sq. ft. of family-led, day and night time leisure and retail facilities. The centre…
Tudor Markets – Christmas by the River For the third consecutive year, Tudor markets hosted the annual London Bridge City Christmas Market which runs along the south bank of the Thames between Tower and London Bridges. Concentrating along The Scoop and encompassing More London, Hays Galleria and beyond, the German style log cabins, twinkling with…
nabma – the voice of markets I write this article as the voting for Britain’s Favourite Market has finished and the judging is about to take place. We have had another fantastic competition with around 125,000 votes cast for Britain’s Favourite Market and some wonderful markets represented in all sections of The Great British…
NABMA News Last month I focused on the NABMA Annual Conference and particularly the award winners from Conference. This month I want to pick out some of the important issues that we highlighted at Conference. The Conference opened with a excellent presentation from Simon Quin, of the Institute of Place Management, who used examples from…
Understanding London’s Markets The Mayor of London has been one of the UK’s biggest supporters of retail markets, investing more than £20m into 50 market focused schemes across 18 London boroughs Markets backed by the Mayor include high-profile markets such as Chrisp Street in Tower Hamlets and Electric Avenue in Brixton. But the Mayor has…
Summer is peak season for London’s Markets. It’s the perfect time to get out there and discover something new. There’s so much on, it can be hard to know where to start, which is why I Love Markets has published the Official Guide to London’s Markets this Summer. This summer there’s an array of new markets entering the scene as well as an awesome…
Canterbury, a city with around 40,000 residents and 6.4 million visitors a year, holds its market every Wednesday and Friday, while Herne Bay’s market takes place each Saturday in a town of 32,000 people. Both markets are well-established and benefit from a very loyal customer base and a wide variety of stallholders.Canterbury City Council runs…
We had our apprehensions with early registrations not coming in as quickly as we had hoped but in the end we need not have worried. Love Your Local Market has been another tremendous success with numbers on a par with 2015. We celebrated this year’s event with a Reception in the Houses of Parliament on…
It’s Love Your Local Market month again. Since 2012 a fortnight during May has been the focus of our year long campaign to promote markets and show their importance to local communities and this year we have allocated the 17th to 31st May. LYLM was created and is run by NABMA and while we are…