Camden Market

Camden Market - Unoffical Review
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Many people like to Camden Market to get stuff like clothes food and other stuff.

The Camden Markets are a number of adjoining large markets in Camden Town near the Hampstead Road Lock of the Regent's Canal (which is usually called Camden Lock), often called collectively "Camden Market" or "Camden Lock". The stalls sell crafts, clothing, bric-a-brac, fast food, and other things. It is the fourth most popular visitor attraction in London, attracting approximately 100,000 people each weekend. It began in its present form in 1974 when the Camden Lock crafts market was formed.

A market stall is a typically immobile, temporary structure erected by merchants to display and shelter their merchandise in a street market or other setting. Such stalls are easily erected, taken down or simply moved on wheels, to allow movement to a new market area.

Some commercial marketplaces, including market squares or flea markets, may erect (or allow merchants to erect) more permanent stalls. Stalls may also appear as display areas at fairs and conventions.

Camden Lock Market is situated by the Regent's Canal on a site formerly occupied by warehouses and other premises connected with the canal. By the early 1970s the canal trade had ceased. At the time there was a proposal to build an urban motorway through the site, which made any major redevelopment impossible, so in 1974 a temporary market was established instead. By the time the motorway proposal was abandoned in 1976, the market was flourishing, and on its way to becoming the best known feature of Camden Town. Camden Market as a whole is now so popular that Camden Town tube station operates special entrance and exit rules on Sundays.

Camden Lock Market was originally a craft market, occupying some outdoor areas by the canal and various existing buildings. It attracted large numbers of visitors partly due to stalls being open on Sundays, while shops were not allowed to trade on Sundays until the 1994 Sunday Trading Act. Nowadays the range of goods has widened, with stalls selling books, clothing, second hand clothing and jewellery, but it is still the most craft-focused of the Camden Markets.

The Stables Market is the largest section of Camden Market. The market is built in the former Midland Railway stables and horse hospital which served the horses pulling barges along the canal. Many of the stalls and shops are set into huge arches in railway viaducts.

It is a mixture of indoor and outdoor shops and stalls, some of them permanent, others hired by the day. Chain stores are not permitted. Like most of the other Camden markets the Stables Market has many clothes stalls. It is also the main home of furniture stores in the Markets, and many household goods and decorative items are also sold, many of them hand-made, and often ethnically influenced. Some of the goods are second-hand or twentieth-century antiques.

Camden Canal Market

The section along the canal to the east of Chalk Farm Road is known as the Canal Market. There is a covered entrance tunnel leading into a general outdoor market. The market was devastated by fire on 9 February 2008.

Buck Street Market

Outdoor market focusing on clothes.

There are a few stallholders who design their own wares though at the weekend these designs are more likely to be found in the Electric Ballroom market.

The Electric Ballroom is one of Londons most famous night clubs and has been around since the 1950s. Many great names have played there. On Saturdays and Sundays this historic venue is open during the day to host an indoor market. Situated moments from Camden Town Tube station it is the 1st Market most people encounter on their visit to Camden. The Market attracts a wide range of traders selling an eclectic mix of day wear, clubbing wear, accessories, records, CDs, jewellry, retro and vintage fashion, arts, crafts, gothic and punk fashions, leathers, and unique designer items.

Inverness Street Market

A small street market. It once had many stalls selling fresh produce and foodstuffs, but now retains only three vegetable and fruit stalls amongst stalls like the rest of the markets.

Chalk Farm Road

Most of the shops in Chalk Farm Road sell alternative culture goods, and many of them operate with their frontages wide open in a semi market style.

Markets in London include or have included ;

Bermondsey Market
Berwick Street Market
Borough Market
Brick Lane Market
Brixton Market
Broadway Market

Camden Market
Camden Passage
Chapel Market
Chrisp Street Market
Clare Market
Columbia Road market

Covent Garden
Cumberland Market

Deptford Market

Earlham Street Market
East Street Market
Electric Ballroom
Exmouth Market

Greenwich Market

Hop Exchange
Hungerford Market

Lambeth Walk
Leadenhall Market
Lower Marsh Market

Nag's Head Market