The stalls

Street Trader, Church Street 1958

Westminster City Archives

View of Church Street Market on a Saturday morning 1955

Westminster City Archives

View of hat stall in Church Street 1958

Westminster City Archives

By Georgina Colbeck

Over time, traders have come from far and wide to sell their goods in the Church Street Market.

Fruit and vegetables, fish, international food and clothes stalls can all be seen on the stalls of Church Street as you walk from one end of the street to the other. The market has seen many changes over the years and a variety of traders have come and gone. For many years and for a few stallholders still, Church Street Market has been something of a tradition, especially amongst some of the current stalls where the trade has been passed down the family from generation to generation.

Although Church Street is still well known for its Antiques shops, it also used to have a number of antiques stalls which used to trade outside what is now known as Alfie’s Antiques. Fine jewellery were among some of the gems that could be found amongst these stalls.