THE CENTRAL MARKET
Aye up M'Ducks...."Luvly Day"......do you fancy a walk down Central Market? See you all at the hot peas stall, up the steps and first on the left, I will have a pot waiting for each of you that join me....my treat......."Bogger the Washing" Cheers Tony.
Nottingham Market Square
The Opening Ceremony of the new Central Market 21 November 1928. It was relocated here from the Market Square at the time when the Council House was built and The Market Square was refurbished with its 'slabs'.
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1928 - site of the Central Markets - Palais already built.... House of Corrections still standing
1936 - The Central Markets now built.
1976 view of the start of St Ann's well road, Showing the Palais, Central Market,both parks on Bath street,& the bus station . The main road through yhe centre is Huntingdon Street.
Rex Coker
1953 Central Markets. Coronation decorations.
Central Market circa. 1950's ish....very happy personal memories of the old market. My wife Ann had a Saturday job on the market as a girl, she started to work at "Middup,s" Fruit & Veg, market gardener's from Woodborough (the stall at the bottom of the pic) at the age of 13 & worked for Sam & Elsie Middup right up to when we got married in 1964... We first started courting when Ann was 14 & I was 16. I used to take her out to the pictures Saturday night's....she was always tired, worn out & smelt of potatoes...but it was still romantic & very exciting........ah....Tony.
Central Markets circa 1960
Janice Hallam's dad, working on the mushy pea stall
Ray Walker : "Can remember a man walking around the market with a fox."
​1953 Central Market, Fish Market -
​Coronation Day decorations
“Great picture, can smell the wet fish now, oh the memories, peas, mint sauce, and I loved the pet stall and Arthur the 2nd hand record man, once spent all my £3/12/6 wages there on Motown records, that someone had bought in to sell think I got about a dozen at 2/6 each or less!! That was about 1968 ish! ”
Photo taken on a business day in 1930.
Central Markets: Coronation Week 1937
1958 Central Markets and Huntingdon St Bus Station
“Can anybody remember Len Parker, who had a paper + magazine stall closer to the bottom of King Edward St. Near the fish market?”
1965 Central Market - intersection Lower Parliament St, Glasshouse St and King Edward St.
1970
“My Aunt had a market stall selling fruit and veg and their home made Colwich cheese”
“Used to love central market, the smell of the hot peas and mint still love them, even the cockles stall, loved them”
1974 Central Market - view from Lower Parliament St.
​The Victoria Centre in evidence by the high rise beyond.
“The shop on the corner of the Central Market was a Cake and Biscuit shop. Mum would send me there to get 1/2 pound of "Broken Biscuits". There was never 1/2 pound when I got back home.”
1929 Central Markets
“Just as you went inside ........ on the left, there was a large sweet stall, and at the end of the day there was always sweets scattered all over the floor, so that's were my friend and I was most nights collecting them up and stuffing our pockets, we liked the toffee's best, but we weren’t too fussy anything would do. And to this day I still have my own teeth... ”
1934 Central Markets
"The good old central market, my mum used to take me Sat morning there to Joices for a bag of broken biscuits..YUM YUM… hot peas and mussels for my dad”
1949 Central Market. Cnr Huntingdon and King Edward St.
“Still using a set of Swan Brand saucepans, pale blue handles very retro to day & still really good, I got them from the Pot stall on the front near the 40 bus stop. Got them for my "bottom drawer”, think they were £3/2/6, I got £3/12/6 wage.”
1934 Central Market - The Fish Market....Mushy Pea Man just out of camera to the right as you go up the corner steps.
"...can smell the wet fish now, oh the memories, peas, mint sauce and I loved the pet stall and Arthur the 2nd hand record man, - once spent all my £3/12/6 wages there on Motown records, that someone had bought in to sell- think I got about a dozen at 2/6 each or less!! That was about 1968 ish!".
The Central Markets closed June 1972
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