Vote for North Cross Road Market

[lane lover]

Vote for Britain?s favourite market. Voting closes on 13 January.

http://www.nabma.com/vote/

[James Barber]

I've voted.

[Baggs]

With no limit on the number of times anyone can vote it could it be argued that the results of this vote are as pointless as any other?

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[Mike Dodd]

what a load of bollocks lane lover and james you trying to jump on anyones fence to make you man of the people total garbage. why vote for a market thats half full of tat

[lane lover]

I am guessing Mike Dodd is not going to vote.

[Mike Dodd]

you are quite clever ,how did you work that out ... must have a stall on north tat road

[DulwichFox]

North Cross Rd. is not a market.. It does not sell anything..

Anyone that has ever been to France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal.. will know what a market looks like..

http://www.museumofthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/French-Market-Scene.jpg

Well they have been doing it for a long time...

We have some of the lowest standards in food...

Compare the above with the so called Farmers Market Franklins. (Not North Cross Rd. )It's a joke.

DulwichFox.

[spider69]

If you take the time many stalls in rye lane produce what every you want. And you can haggle there if you want to slum it, according to the the ed creed.

Much cheaper than ll.

Depends on your mind set. It is overall a sh..t hole but it works for me

[unlurked]

Agree with mike dodds. I'd vote for the Blue.

[Louisa]

"Market". I beg to differ. East Lane, portobello rd, borough, these are all markets. Northcross rd? Hmm maybe at one time in its history.

Louisa.

[DuncanW]

How is it not a market? Of course you may not think it's a particularly good one, that's up to you. But it's definitely a market.

[edcam]

It's a shame there are very few good stalls. I thought after all this time that it might have become much better but it's mostly tat.

[Mike Dodd]

never will be a proper market roll up roll up get your popcorn here

[NewWave]

I wouldn't call it a market...there really isn't much there, It would be nice to see it grow and develop however right now it hardly stands up against Broadway Market,Brick Lane,Spitalfields Market,Portobello,Borough Market and Camden Lock.

Its a street with a few stalls.

[Sue]

NewWave Wrote:

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> Its a street with a few stalls.

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I agree.

Hardly even a mini-market.

[fernado]

NewWave Wrote:

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It would be nice to see it grow and

> develop however right now it hardly stands up

> against Broadway Market,Brick Lane,Spitalfields

> Market,Portobello,Borough Market and Camden Lock.

Brilliant. How is a street about 100 metres long suposed to rival Borough Market and Camden Lock?

[Jeremy]

I think it's OK... if you're out and about on a Saturday it's nice to grab a bite to eat along there. It is what it is.

[KidKruger]

If you want a Cor Blimey fruit and veg Guvnor market go to East Street, or Rye Lane for cheap fruit n veg.

The Kurdistani chaps running the huge FnV stall at the Rye Lane end of Elm Grove have it all surely (3x cucumbers for a ?, 10x lemons for ? etc.)

NC Road is a function of the demographic, obviously. We actually have both options, so nowt to complain about really.

Hot dogs, decent pies, mexican food, vietnamese food, Hog roast - maybe not a grocer market but some good nosh and a few luxury bits and pieces. I pick up lunch there most weekends and stock up on fish cakes, bean cakes for the week at not much cost. I'd far rather we have NC market than nothing, we can go 1 or 2 miles away for other markets.

[eberg]

Yes it's better than nothing. It's more of a lunch stop than anything else. Could do with a few more produce stalls though. If you want a proper market, go to Deptford on a Saturday and save yourself some money. Excellent fruit and veg and more variety than you can find on Lordship Lane, superb fish at a fraction of the cost of Moxons and one of the best butchers in the country at Wellbeloveds who have been open since 1829. And you can get yourself a decent coffee to sip while wandering and a fantastic food market which is much much better than N'cross on the 1st Saturday of the month.

[dbboy]

which stall sells bean cakes??

[EDdownunder]

There really is a bunch of negative moaners on this forum.

French/Tuscan village markets - I know them well and I love village markets for fresh produce but they sell way more tat than North Cross Road. Also, the best one's are in small villages where you actually rely on the markets to load up with fruit and vege. It is not reasonable to expect on the streets of east dulwich so why bother comparing.

As for portobello road, its not a market it is a crammed procession of tourists on a saturday morning with virtually zero chance of browseing in any sort of peace. Camden is not much better.

North Cross Road is a small market that serves the local community. Fresh produce including pasta, salami and olives, cheese/fudge/meat/fish and street food is hardly tat. While not country france I am happy enough with the fruit and veg from prettys and smbs....you should try buying fruit and veg in Australia you will pay 3 times the price for half the range. Also some small businesses selling pet products, beautiful french pottery and yes some "tat" but I have never once had a hard sell and who am I to decide what someone else wants to purchase.

[Louisa]

Another vote for Deptford Market. Great mix of long standing stool holders who've been there for generations alongside some more exotic late 20th century stalls which sell such a vast range of produce you can never be bored of the selection. All markets specialise in different things aimed at different populations, NC Market is a reflection of this as KK points out. However, it still isn't a match for something of a similar type in other gentrified parts of London.

Louisa.

[eberg]

I noticed that in an earlier post someone asked why the market hadn't expanded. I know a lot of market traders and they say that the pitch fees are prohibitivly expensive. If you have a quick turn over business with a good mark up on your product like The Dogfather then you can make a few quid but if you're having to fork out 50 or 60 quid before you even start it's not such a good deal.

[*Bob*]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> North Cross Rd. is not a market.. It does not sell

> anything..

> We have some of the lowest standards in food...

> DulwichFox.

You're right - fruit and veg is EXACTLY what's missing from NXR

Ooh, hang on

[Louisa]

But for how much longer *Bob*?

Louisa.