Was at Liverpool Street’s Old Spitalfields and Brick Lane markets over the weekend. Nice weather, for once, and great company.
Its markets sell anything and everything you can think of, mostly second-hand, but some are quality wares. Fruits and vegs are sold fresh and cheap, and the entire neighbourhood is a diverse, densely multicultural area, being home to London’s Bangladeshi community, and formerly of the Jewish and Huguenot communities. Vendors and visitors are not limited to the Middle East and Indian subcontinent though – there are Chinese, Japanese and other Europeans who have set up stalls there. Its street corners with tattered posters and stickers, and graffiti walls (photographers are drawn to them like seagulls to bread) are a constant visible reminder of the area’s vibrant artistic and political culture.
One thing dismayed me though – the Square Pie shop is gone!
Photos :: London East End Album
