Family traders on a longstanding stall at Birmingham’s famous rag market are reassuring customers that it’s business as usual while major plans for the site’s redevelopment are progressed. The markets at the heart of the city centre stand to be completely revitalised as part of the £500million Birmingham Smithfield regeneration project, but Donna Price of…
What’s your dream job? Well mine, for the past 5 years or so, has been to run my own record store. When I made the move to London from Brighton in 2011, it didn’t take me long to notice there wasn’t a local record store near me in East London that seemed to offer what…
Original farmers’ Markets were viewed in the early days as a saviour for many small family farming businesses who had been suffering from a decade long recession in farming and were a chance for a farmer to get close to the customer and cut out costs and the middle men. For many traditional markets they…
A Fun and Friendly Market in the North West Earlestown is a town in the Borough of St Helens and is situated adjacent to Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside some six miles to the north of Warrington. The town was originally built around the wagon works of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway and was named after Sir…
It’s a record! Ashton Indoor Market’s popular indoor sweet and confectionary stall, Suzy’s Sweets has announced record Christmas trading figures. After four years in the indoor market hall, Christmas 2014 proved to be the best yet for Suzy who has also recently introduced a ‘candy cart’ to her stall which can be hired out full…
A modern, forward thinking market dating back to 567 A.D. The new £8 million Blackburn Market offers traditional values but within a modern, new, bright environment. Based in the ground floor of The Mall shopping centre and connected by escalators and lifts to the department stores and parking above, it opens six days a week…
Local Councillors recently inspected Market Walk, the new Covered Market in Woking which opens this month. The £4million project is part of wider Town Centre improvements by the Borough Council which include refurbishing the 1970’s Wolsey Place Shopping Centre and repaving Commercial Way, the retail heart of Woking. Market Walk replaces the existing Open Market…