Traders vocally advertising their products added to that vibrancy as people bustled through the stalls. These photos show much-loved Abingdon Street Market, St John’s Market, Waterloo Market and others including open air Bonny Street Market.
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Market Supervisor John Holmes (left) and greeting card stallholder Keith Thompson at St John's Market, in 1998 Photo: Send in
5. Blackpool Market Memories
St John's Market just before it closed in 2000 Photo: Robert Charles Norton Lock
6. Blackpool Market Memories
Feature on the proposed closure of St John's Market in Blackpool. Stallholder Glenn Wells, whose family have been in the market for 46 years Photo: Robert Charles Norton Lock
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