London markets: Camden, Portobello Road, Brixton and other London marketsLondon markets are a very good way to find bargains. Camden Lock Market (Camden Town)The Camden Market is a huge market, covering almost a whole neighbourhood, and it takes hours to explore. At weekends it gets extremely crowded, but it's beautiful to walk along the Camden stretch of the Grand Union Canal, looking at the narrow boats on one side and the market stalls on the other. The area is also full of shops and stores. The market and stores sell new and second-hand clothes, arts, crafts, ethnic knick-knacks, jewellery, bric-a-brac, furniture, designer clothes, army surplus gear, records, 1960s clothing: a bit of everything. It's very good value, especially for designer clothes.It's situated in Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 (tube: Camden Town or Chalk Farm). Open Monday to Sunday 10am to 6pm. Portobello Road MarketPortobello Road Market is the London market par excellence, famous all over the world for its antiques and art objects. Portobello in fact sells other merchandise too: new and traditional clothes, household goods, furniture, radios, watches, lighters, boots, jewellery, shoes, bric a brac, ethnic goods, at very good prices (even bycicles), but at the North end of the Portobello Road, further from Notting Hill Gate and less familiar to tourists. In the middle, Portobello sells food, fruit and vegetables. Among so much colourful, unusual merchandise, you can find excellent bargains.It's obviously in Portobello Road, London W11 (underground: Notting Hill). Open Fridays and Saturdays 8am to 3pm. Brixton MarketBrixton Market is mainly for ethnic foods, fruits and vegetables. You can find odd merchandise, like wigs, rare records, homeopathic root cures.It's situated in Electric Avenue, Pope's Road, Station Road and The Concourse, London SW9 (tube: Brixton). Open Monday to Saturday 9am to 6pm, except Wednesday when it's open 9am to 3pm. Other ways to save money while shopping
Other pages on this site on the subject of shopping and saving in the UK are Luxury shirts Cheap designer clothes Designer underwear Kids designer clothes & women's fashion bargains Mobiles, phones & phone services in Britain Highly discounted phone calls Bargains in computers hardware, software, consumables, Internet access Back to Top Other London marketsFor fruits and vegetables there is Berwick Street, in the heart of Soho (underground: Piccadilly Circus). But if you want very good organic fruits, vegetables, tofu and other foods, go to Spitalfields market, in Commercial Street, Aldgate, London E1 (underground: Shoreditch or Aldgate East). It's open Monday to Friday from 11am to 3pm and on Sundays from 9.30am to 5.30pm. At Spitalfields market you'll also find crafts, antiques, bric-a-brac and clothes stalls, and a falafel cafe.At the market of Club Row, Shoreditch High Street, London E2 (tube: Shoreditch), you can find good bargains in furniture, radios, boots, shoes. Still antiques in Bermondsey Square, London SE1 (tube: London Bridge). The market of Petticoat Lane, in East London, sells new clothes and electrical goods. At Covent Garden covered market (tube: Covent Garden) you can find a bit of everything, but particularly clothes. Covent Garden market is in the same area as the famous Covent Garden opera theater, the Royal Opera House. You can visit the site of the Jubilee Market: Covent Garden's Jubilee Arts and Crafts Market Hall. Back to Top |
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