BROADWAY MARKET THIS MORNING

Broadway Market is a shopping street nestled in the heart of Hackney, East London.

Established on an old drover’s route into the city, Broadway Market has been home to market traders since the 1890s, and provides a unique kaleidoscope of tastes and cultures.

Visit and you will find independent shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes and of course stalls offering amazing fresh produce, authentic street food, the most original clothing, arts and crafts in London.

All crammed into a little East End street between the Regent’s Canal and London Fields.
The market is open 9am – 5pm every Saturday, with shops, bars and restaurants open throughout the week.

The Saturday Street Market was relaunched by the local community on the 8th May 2004. It started with around 40 stalls and has now grown to 135, filling the street with amazing sights and sounds from all around the world.

This guy is from Columbia.

The market has everything from amazing street food and coffee to the freshest farm produce, artisan bread, cakes and unique items from local designers and artists.

The Market runs from 09:00-17:00 every Saturday

HISTORY
Fred Cooke started selling jellied eels on Broadway Market in 1900. His restaurant served shepherds driving their flocks to the City of London.

The Cat and Mutton pub was named after the Cat and Mutton bridge over the Regent’s Canal coal barges on the canal were called “cats”, the mutton speaks for itself. Sheep Lane still exists, running parallel to Broadway Market from London Fields to the canal.

This was a bawdy, drunken, vibrant street, the heart of an East End community that was to survive social turmoil and the bombs of two world wars.

By the eighties, the community was crumbling. The Thatcher recession and planning blight killed shops. Many residents bought their council houses, sold up and moved out. The street market all but died.

Successive attempts by Hackney Council to revive the market failed.

Then in 2004 the community renewed itself.

Volunteers from Broadway Market Traders’ and Residents’ Association revived the Saturday market as a project to repopulate the street.

New shops and restaurants arrived.

The community is thriving once more.

I took some video which I will post a bit later on,

have a wonderful weekend everyone !

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