Latest update October 14th, 2019 7:27 AM
Nov 28, 2011 Peter Rabbit Market News Comments Off on salford precinct markets to shut
28th November 2011, A Salford Star Exclusive
THE END IS NIGH FOR SALFORD PRECINCT’S FLEA AND CAR BOOT MARKETS
Salford’s bustling Thursday flea market and Sunday car boot market are to close as part of the redevelopment of Salford Shopping City by owners, Salford Estates. It appears to be an open secret amongst stall holders that the markets will close after Christmas, although the Precinct management won’t be drawn on a date.
The closure of the markets has led to an online petition and anger amongst both traders and the public.
It’s Thursday afternoon and the second hand flea market at Salford Precinct is bustling with people raking through stalls, looking for a bargain. There are plenty to be had. For a few quid you can pick up old cassette players, designer clothes, top toys…there’s even a bloke selling tyres and another with a huge 1841 Bible up for grabs…
Anyone searching for Salford’s soul would do well to start here. Both traders and punters have been coming here for years, some since it began over two decades ago. The market has got a character of its own, one of the last places where old Salford doesn’t fear to tread as the sterilised, regenerationalised, glass fronted future attempts to wipe it out.
MediaCityUK has almost become a curse on Salford, as everything within a couple of miles radius gets bulldozed and (sometimes) re-built, with Ordsall and Langworthyalready `treated’. And Pendleton, with its PFI project and the Precinct at its core, next in line.
In the summer the (in)famous Flat Iron pub on the market corner was closed and flattened with indecent haste (see here). And two weeks ago planning permission was granted for the modernisation of Salford Precinct (see here) which will see the site of the current outdoor market replaced with a car park and a retail unit.
Traders who run stalls on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and those who trade in the current indoor market, will be re-housed in a glossy new purpose built Market Hall. But there’s nowhere in the plans for the Thursday and Sunday car boot and flea markets to go. It’s now an open secret amongst traders that the markets will close, possibly as soon as the second week in January.
“I’ve heard that the bulldozers are moving in during January, and I spoke to the market manager and said `Realistically there isn’t going to be any room for us’ and he said,`Realistically, no’; but officially we’ve been told nothing” says Deborah Hall who has been selling second hand and vintage clothing here for over twenty years.
“A lot of the customers don’t know about the closure either” she adds “I think it’s disgraceful. You ask anyone in Salford and they will tell you, the market is the heart of Salford. And they’re ripping the heart out of it to make it bland and the same as everywhere else. It’s not the new market that people are bothered about, it’s this. This is something different. Here, it’s not all the same shops like in every town now but they don’t care about that.”
Read the full article HERE
Jul 15, 2018 Comments Off on Trading Days At Whitby Market To Be Restricted
Aug 04, 2013 Comments Off on Car parking a ‘cash cow’
Apr 12, 2013 Comments Off on Ormskirk market traders go on rent strike
Apr 12, 2013 Comments Off on Rent suspended to help Buntingford market
Oct 14, 2019 Comments Off on Traders’ concern over changes to Oswestry parking rules
Oct 14, 2019 Comments Off on We compared Tesco supermarket prices with Romford street market – this is what we found
Oct 03, 2019 Comments Off on Manchester Christmas Markets Will Expand To Piccadilly Gardens This Year
Sep 24, 2019 Comments Off on Traders inspired by school star Anna campaigning to keep market open
Oct 14, 2019 Comments Off on Venezuelan fast-casual dining opening in White City
HOSPITALITY & CATERING NEWS A new fast-casual dining concept from restaurateurs Gabriel and Jose-Luis Gonzalez. SABROSO!, will open at West London’s Westfield White City on 21st October....Sep 06, 2019 Comments Off on Leicester vegans are about to gain a new 100% vegan market, hitting the city this month
Oct 14, 2019 Comments Off on Borough Market To Open Sustainable New Street Food Area
Londonist.com BY LAURA REYNOLDS The eclectic stalls of Borough Market offer myriad lunch options — trust us, we’ve availed ourselves of most of them at one time or another — but not many places to sit and enjoy your nosh. Enter The Borough Market Kitchen, a new space in the...Sep 16, 2019 Comments Off on The end of an era for Smithfield market
Jun 09, 2019 Comments Off on More city dwellers connect with their food via street markets
Jun 01, 2019 Comments Off on Paris’s La Felicità is a style-forward food market bringing Italian flair and flavour to the culinarily-diverse 13th arrondissement…
May 10, 2019 Comments Off on Time Out opens newest market at Miami’s South Beach
Apr 16, 2019 Comments Off on Highway ban takes heavy toll on Sunday market
Apr 12, 2019 Comments Off on This Little Piggy Went To These 11 Street Food Markets
Apr 07, 2019 Comments Off on Dublin’s hidden gem: The Liberty Market
Dec 09, 2018 Comments Off on 12 magical Christmas markets from Chichester to Copenhagen