Whos Got The Best Local Market

[tinfoilhat]

23 hours ago, HeHasRisen said:

Thats hardly a glowing reflection on the people of the town then, they must like their tat.

There's tat there but it's not a crappy car boot.

[metalman]

Definitely Chesterfield on a Thursday is the best locally. Leek on Saturdays isn't bad either, or at least it wasn't before the pandemic; haven't been since yet so everything might have changed now.

[kidley]

nobody has mentioned rovveram on wednesdays, if you like Chesterfield market you will like rotherham, a lot of Chesterfield stallholders go there to ply their trade. 

Also Chesterfield market is not a patch on what it was about 10 years ago.

[bassett one]

WHY dont  sheffield do a flee market outside the new one,it would draw good crowds,as it does elsewhere

[cuttsie]

1 hour ago, bassett one said:

WHY dont  sheffield do a flee market outside the new one,it would draw good crowds,as it does elsewhere

Because Sheffield is now run by the upwardly mobile mob , tat and flea markets are not their style , Division Street style markets with twee little trinkets and silk scarves all topped of with Indian wind chimes is the way this lot want our rough old lovely City to go . 

 

[ECCOnoob]

3 minutes ago, cuttsie said:

Because Sheffield is now run by the upwardly mobile mob , tat and flea markets are not their style , Division Street style markets with twee little trinkets and silk scarves all topped of with Indian wind chimes is the way this lot want our rough old lovely City to go . 

 

Good. 

 

I would much rather be part of the ambitious, elevated, progressive, forward-thinking "this lot" than part of the backward thinking, rose-tinted, delusional, inverse snobbery filled "your lot"

1 hour ago, bassett one said:

WHY dont  sheffield do a flee market outside the new one,it would draw good crowds,as it does elsewhere

Is there an audience for it? Big city is very different from small town.

 

Unlike many of the other locations mentioned, the city already has dedicated antiques, second-hand, vintage shops scattered around including a whole row of them in a long-standing area at London Road.  There are even dedicated places springing up in Kelham Island so question has to be asked if there is any business case for further saturation by including it around the markets when there is already supply in better and more permanent locations.

[Guest busdriver1]

10 hours ago, kidley said:

nobody has mentioned rovveram on wednesdays, if you like Chesterfield market you will like rotherham, a lot of Chesterfield stallholders go there to ply their trade. 

Also Chesterfield market is not a patch on what it was about 10 years ago.

I agree but expecting Sheffielders to go to Rotherham? REALLY?

Edited November 3, 2021 by busdriver1

[the_bloke]

On 30/10/2021 at 09:20, cuttsie said:

Barnsley on a Tuesday , rag and tag day , In the last month I have purchased , A Roberts radio £2 now  in bin but saved Ariel , A Danset record player  £3-50, It plays at around 15 revs a minute but has a box of  needles. A sawing machine ,make Newhome £6 , It works some times but needs further adjustments a work in progress . A Pilots flying suit£2  complete with WD numbers, already a hit as three blokes have asked me where I got it from , Seems to be a few repaired holes in various places that adds to its ambiance.

These purchases have given me hours of pleasure trying to get em going but need a new shed as I cannot get through door .

Sounds more like a car boot sale than a market. I find the Sheffield market a bit hit and miss, the cheese, olives and beer places are great, the rest of things on offer either seems a crazy case of duplication (I'm sure there are four butchers all in a row, all competing with one another), hairdressers or tat.

 

Then again, I only popped in about once a month for a nose before lockdown and since then I've been working from home and haven't missed it at all.

[cuttsie]

2 minutes ago, the_bloke said:

Sounds more like a car boot sale than a market. I find the Sheffield market a bit hit and miss, the cheese, olives and beer places are great, the rest of things on offer either seems a crazy case of duplication (I'm sure there are four butchers all in a row, all competing with one another), hairdressers or tat.

 

Then again, I only popped in about once a month for a nose before lockdown and since then I've been working from home and haven't missed it at all.

sounds just like a market

[HeHasRisen]

Aye because no other market in the world has a row of butchers, or a row of greengrocers.