Elephant and Castle Sunday Market

[cate]

Pearson, I am not asking anyone to move there. You've made your point that you don't like the area. I like trying different places with different foods and I know that there are others out there like me. So please stop running down the area for no reason. The Elephant is being revitalized and the market is changing all the time. They even have an Marks and Spencer which ED doesn't have.

[The Minkey]

I've always found E&C to be a bit grim and only ever pass through on foot when I happen to be changing transport, however, I do find some of the predjudice expressed on here very distasteful.

Seeing as I'm such an irregular visitor, I didn't know there was a Sunday Market selling potentially interesting food stuffs. I might just browse it when I next pass through on a Sunday. So, thanks for posting, Cate.

[cate]

Here's a link to info. about the market:

Sunday: http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4457

Saturday: http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4815

Haven't tried the Saturday one yet.

[SeanMacGabhann]

E&C is an unlovely spot at present but you would have to have your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalalaalalalalalal" to not see something is happening there and it's interesting to both observe and be a part of it. (Royal Court relocation, foodstalls, revamped Coronet etc etc)

Sadly if it ever does shed it's unlovely tag, it will then attract the "it's just full of pretentious tossers" brigade

Damned if you do damned if you don't

[*Bob*]

Trip to Borough Market, carrier bag from Harrods, then to Madame Tussauds and cap the day off with a 'flight' on the London Eye.

Easyjet flight home. London - tick.

[expat]

Is E&C in ED?

[SeanMacGabhann]

does it matter? we are in the Lounge, where any topic is fair game

[expat]

>any topic is fair game

Ah news to me. There is a maket in Chesterfield which is worth a visit.

[SeanMacGabhann]

start a thread on it - go for it

I would suggest more people find E&C accesible tho

But Im' genuinely interested - how come it's news to you?

"The Lounge...

The place to relax and chat about anything. Feel free to discuss the price of fish, music issues, share gardening tips it's up to you... ? "

that's how it's flagged up on the front page

[expat]

It was news to me because it is called "The East Dulwich Forum" and I stupidly thought it was about ED.

[Huguenot]

Crikey, you must have been terribly startled by the Chilean Miners, Ryder Cup and Tony Curtis threads! ;-)

Some of Chesterfields many and varied markets are covered here and here.

[dbboy]

Can I add Lewisham and Croydon street markets to the "debate" both worth a visit.

[dulwichmum]

I am sorry sweetie, but the London Borough of Lewisham is taking it far too far!

[KidKruger]

What time us the food Market open on Sunday anyone ??

[dbboy]

sweetie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a bloke.

[cate]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> What time us the food Market open on Sunday anyone

> ??

Click on the link I posted earlier in the thread.

[elloriac]

Thanks Cate - definitely interested in finding Arturo! :-)

[KidKruger]

Sundays it's open as quoted below:

"From Sunday 11 April the food market will be open every Sunday between 10am and 4pm.

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[cate]

elloriac Wrote:

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> Thanks Cate - definitely interested in finding

> Arturo! :-)

If you don't catch him at E&C then try to see him at his pitch at Lower Marsh Tuesday - Friday. You can always call him to check he is there.

[katie1997]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> E&C is an unlovely spot at present but you would

> have to have your fingers in your ears going

> "lalalalalalaalalalalalal" to not see something is

> happening there and it's interesting to both

> observe and be a part of it. (Royal Court

> relocation, foodstalls, revamped Coronet etc etc)

>

> Sadly if it ever does shed it's unlovely tag, it

> will then attract the "it's just full of

> pretentious tossers" brigade

>

> Damned if you do damned if you don't

Exactly.

Anyway, who on the EDF used to sing the praises of Borough Market ~10-15 years ago?

My brother used to work in that area back then and I am sure it wasn't as 'trendy' as it is now (although happy to be corrected on this).

The forum will be a great historical record for us to look back on in a decade's time when E&C is full of etc etc .. :)

I hear Nick Cave's band played at the old cinema there last night too! :D

[The Minkey]

ED itself has transformed from what it was when I first came across it in the early eighties. I'll be fascinated to see how Elephant scrubs up, and it will, it's so close to London Bridge and look how that area's transformed over the last few years.

[Tarot]

The EaC has always had a bad name,made worse by the collosal gross Aylesbury estate, that killed a good community. Estates are souless places.Kennington is another gross example of bad housing and social misfits. Deptford also was always a low area, it improved when they shut carrington house.But when all the good shops went it turned into a third world type market. In some places there you can buy snake meat.No doubt the EC will go this way. To think there was a time there were only pie stalls . Telford pies come back please.

[Huguenot]

In what way did it resemble a 'third world type market' tarot? What does a 'third world type market' look like?

[Pearson]

Elephant & Castle:

This!

Third World Market:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://bp0.blogger.com/_ckWXu5q4YK0/R1O8MqqFPRI/AAAAAAAAAPw/BAeKIqhaRz4/s1600-R/shopping%2Bindia.jpg&imgrefurl=http://incredibleindia2.blogspot.com/2007/12/travel-tips-for-india.html&usg=__cDO-4HqlBFKKFmQw7-ZJdN1w2h8=&h=369&w=500&sz=156&hl=en&start=76&zoom=1&tbnid=9EvRh7rpukQkYM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=176&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarket%2Bindia%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1131%26bih%3D603%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C2425&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=362&ei=AgKrTLSPCZTNjAean7HIBw&oei=5wGrTP7KMcTKjAfT0cG6Bw&esq=7&page=6&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:76&tx=80&ty=71&biw=1131&bih=603

I'm afraid i have to disagree with Tarot on this.

Third World Market look much nicer!

[Jeremy]

I don't think it's particularly accurate to say that the Royal Court has relocated to E&C...

I assumed that the shopping centre, along with the revolting sub-pavement area which homes the market would all be destroyed as part of the redevelopment work.