Market Stalls
Hackney’s markets from bustling Ridley Road to the Broadway revival, offer a vibrant and different shopping experience.
We recently asked traders, shoppers and local residents for their views on the markets. Follow this link to find out more about the markets consultation.
The Council runs five markets – Broadway Market, Hoxton Street, Well Street, Kingsland Waste and Ridley Road – and all come with a historical pedigree.
The site of Hoxton Street Market was once the main road for the medieval hamlet of Hoxton and later favourite residence for comedians and actors. In the sixteenth century, playwright Ben Johnson killed an actor in a duel at the rear of one of the pubs.
Kingsland Waste Market started life as a tool market and a range of produce is still sold there on Saturdays.
Well Street, was where the founder of Tesco’s started out trading from a barrow in 1919.
Now a vibrant six day market with over 180 pitches, Ridley Road, started life in the 1880s as a Saturday Market in Kingsland Road.
Spare parts for wirelesses, bicycles and lawn mowers were more common then than the global foods Ridley Road is famed for selling now.
On the ‘drovers path’ Broadway Market, was the last stop to graze cattle before Smithfields Market. After years of decline the Council supported local people in bringing the pitches back to life and Broadway is now host to a regular Farmers’ style market.
Page updated: 14 Mar 2008