20th Feb 2012
After more than one hundred years, Saturday trading is coming to Old Spitalfields Market on Saturday 19th November.
For the first Saturday, Old Spitalfields Market will bring the cream of its weekday traders together with unique contemporary design and craft from Designers/Makers. With the famous Victorian market hall decked in Christmas lights, the Saturday market will offer visitors a wide choice of original and distinctive gifts for Christmas.
The Saturday Market will take place inside the covered market hall, which is home to London’s leading independent design, crafts and fashion boutiques, as well as restaurants, cafes and bars.
The Saturday Market will open between 11am and 5pm. Old Spitalfields Market has lined up four distinctive markets, which will rotate on a regular weekly basis, with dates as follows:
November 2011
December 2011
With all of the best that’s on offer from Old Spitalfields Market’s current six days of trading – including the giant Sunday market - visitors will be able to browse a wide-array of goods, from fashion, accessories, jewellery, furniture, art, collectables and a fabulous collection of mouth-watering fresh produce.
Taking place on the third Saturday of every month, the new Designers / Makers Market will feature a wide variety of crafts, including ceramics, fashion, art, furniture and jewellery. Formerly located at The Triangle, Hackney it is planned that this specialist market will include interactive craft demonstrations and workshops will be added to the market as it develops in the coming months and more details of this will be announced shortly.
Antiques and Collectors Flea Market
The South East’s biggest antiques and collectors market – normally held on a Thursday – will make an additional appearance at Old Spitalfields Market on the fourth Saturday of every month. Offering an eclectic assortment of gems, there will be items as diverse as Bowler hats, William Morris prints, antique chests, one-off grandfather clocks and 1960s smock dresses - amongst many of the delights to be found.
Featuring sections from fashion to haberdashery, each monthly market looks set to showcase the best of British vintage, with prices at an all-time low. Adding an extra element of novelty, expect entertainment, workshops and a changing monthly theme, selected by some of the UK's biggest bloggers. Blending the old with the new, it's one to watch out for.
Open between 11am and 5pm on Saturdays (10am - 6pm Monday-Friday, and 8am – 5pm, Sunday.)Old Spitalfields Market is a short walk from Liverpool Street Station and Aldgate East Tube.
Old Spitalfields Market was named as ‘Best Private Market’ in January 2011, and has recently been awarded a place by Event Magazine as one of its Top 20 Venues.
Located in the heart of Spitalfields is a premier London attraction and one of the finest surviving Victorian Market Halls in the capital. Nestled in the cobbled streets between Brick Lane and Bishopsgate, Old Spitalfields Market is steeped in history; a market has operated on the site since the 1600s, while Jack the Ripper preyed on women in the surrounding streets. The fruit and vegetable market relocated to New Spitalfields Market in 1991.
In 1682 (before Old Spitalfields Market as we know it). Charles II grants a Letters Patent to a silk thrower by the name of John Balch, allowing a market for flesh, fowl and roots in Spitalfields, an area known as a ‘stronghold of Noncomformity’.
“We’ve had unprecedented level of demand for this extra day – from shoppers, visitors and traders - and now, finally, we can introduce the market that everyone has been waiting for and just in time for Christmas too.
With our various partners, we have assembled a truly distinctive line up – from vintage and contemporary fashion, arts and crafts through to antiques and collectables. Our first Saturday will give a taste of what’s to come - giving visitors to our vibrant and historic part of the capital yet another reason to visit us.”
Andrew Sparrow, Director of Old Spitalfields Market
Operated by Wellington Market Company Plc, Old Spitalfields Market, located in the heart of Spitalfields is a premier London attraction and one of the finest surviving Victorian Market Halls in the capital.
Built in 1876, Old Spitalfields Market offers an impressive array of art, fashion, gifts, antiques and food outlets via its market stalls, shops and restaurants. Old Spitalfields Market is a Ballymore property.
Open between 11am and 5pm on Saturdays (10am - 6pm Monday-Friday and 8am – 5pm, Sunday), Old Spitalfields Market is a short walk from Liverpool Street Station and Aldgate East Tube.
14th November 2011
Meadhbh Boyd
Press Relations
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Michael Saxton
07738 710 583
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