Tuesday markets in London

Get your week's wares at one of London's markets that are open on a Tuesday

Wednesday 28 January 2015

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Tuesday markets tend to be the regular daily food markets like Chapel Market, although Spitalfields is open, albeit with a reduced number of traders, and provides a much more civilised shopping experience than the weekends. The second and fourth Tuesday of each month also sees the gargantuan Sunbury Antiques market take place at Kempton racecourse. Well worth the early start.

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Alfie's Antique Market

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Lisson Grove

Good for: antiques
Alfie’s is packed to the rafters with handsome twentieth-century home decor, hosting more than 100 dealers in vintage furniture and fashion, art, accessories, books, maps and more.

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Berwick Street Market

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Oxford Street

Good for: food, lunch
This small, buzzy street market, in a sometimes sleazy area, is one of London’s oldest.

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Brixton Market

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Brixton

Good for: food
Compared to the culinary homogeneity of Borough market et al, Brixton is a sensory fiesta. The air is thick with the sizzle of jerk chicken stalls, tinny reggae riddims and yam-based price disputes while the multi-coloured hues of exotic fish displays glimmer like a whiffy rainbow.

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Camden Market

Good for: clothes, souvenirs
Camden’s sprawling collection of markets offers a real smörgåsbord of street culture. Wander past loitering goths and punks to join the throng of tourists, locals and random celebs fighting it out at the vast and varied selection of shops and stalls.

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Chapel Street Market

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Islington

Good for: food, household goods

If the bellowing, clattering traders selling a good mix of fruit, veg and tat aren't Albert Square enough for you, then the frequent presence of a real life 'EastEnders' actor on the street might be.

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Covent Garden

Good for: food, crafts, antiques
Although something of a London institution, Covent Garden Market is too commercial and generally too crowded to provide a particularly characterful retail experience. However, the colonnaded 19th-century building is impressive, and occasionally some of the performers and entertainers can even be worth watching.

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Greenwich Market

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Greenwich

Good for: food, antiques
There are plenty of stalls selling bric-a-brac, second-hand clothes, ethnic ornaments, CDs, crafts and jewellery galore at Greenwich Market. On Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, the market takes a different turn with an excellent antiques and collectibles.

Good for: food, lunch
Popular, upbeat lunchtime market selling cut-price clothing and household items, plus flowers, gifts, fruit and veg and excellent street food.

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Lower Marsh Market

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Waterloo

Good for: accessories
A street market since Victorian times, there’s some quality veg, women’s clothes, decent jewellery and vintage shops.

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Battersea

Good for: food, antiques
Decent fruit and veg, flowers, ceramics, vintage clothes, plus the Antiques Market (No 155A; 020 7228 6850) and some excellent independent shops.

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Tuesday markets in London

Alfie's Antique Market

Berwick Street Market

Brixton Market

Camden Market

Chapel Street Market

Covent Garden Market

Greenwich Market

Leather Lane

Lower Marsh Market

Northcote Road Market

More great shopping in London

Farmer's Markets

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