Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: market

Leicester Market is around 800 years old and was moved to the current site around 700 years ago. It is the largest outdoor covered market in Europe. It's looking a bit sad at the moment because it is in the middle of a total revamp. Temporarily moved to the other side of the Corn Exchange building the stalls will be relocated back on completion. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

The market place at Thorne, my home town, hasn't changed that much since I was a kid in the 1950s but the only building still fulfilling its original purpose is the White Hart pub dating from 1737. It no longer sells Thorne-brewed Darley's Ales though. HFF & have a great weekend.

Indonesia Sumatra, Kampong Keling market, Medan. Note the fine vegetables amongst the tropical fruit. These were grown in Brastagi a few hours drive and a few thousand feet higher to the southwest where the climate was more temperate. We lived in Medan from 1979 to 1981 when I worked for Mobil & greatly enjoyable it was. I found the people and places fascinating. Every day threw up something new & even on the walk to the office you saw different things of interest. I went back on holiday in 1997 &, unsurprisingly, things had changed. Toko Ben's - the sacks sit outside the shop entrance - had transformed into a modern supermarket no longer opening onto the market but what shocked me the most was the fact that the Mobil office building had been converted into a Pizza Hut! A sign of the times I suppose.