Advantages: Great fresh fruit and vegetable stalls Disadvantages: Not so good clothing stalls
Newcastle upon Tyne's Grainger Market opened in 1835. Architect, John Dobson and developer John Grainger were together responsible for giving the central part of the city the classical buildings for which it is still well-known today. In honour of Grainger, who must take most of the acclaim, this part of the city is now known as Grainger Town and much money has been spent to promote the area in recent years. Most of these buildings are in the neoclassical ... ...of the market (away from Grainger Street was cleared last year: it used to house some octagonal shaped units but these have since been dismantled and the stall-holders housed elsewhere in the market. This open area is now used to house a craft market one Saturday each month.
When the market first opened it was one of the largest covered markets in Europe. Now, sadly, it has gone somewhat into decline, most probably because customers prefer to do ...
fizzytom 20.02.2004
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Advantages: Cheap excellent fruit and vegetables Disadvantages: No Fish
I work on Grainger Street in Newcastle and luckily am about five minutes walk from the Grainger Market, which is in turn very close to the centre of Newcastle. This op was sparked off by reading WILMA's op on Tesco. Like many people I used to do my monthly / weekly shop at the supermarket, but was usually very disappointed with the high cost and relatively low quality of their vegetables and fruit.
I wandered into the Grainger Market and was amazed ... ...in fresh produce.
The Grainger Market is a huge indoor market surrounded on the outside by various shops (including two Ladbrokes, a Corals, two Greggs, some well dodgy pubs , the excellent Reflex Records and numerous other establishments), and inside you have a huge selection of stalls.
You get lots of fruit and vegetable stalls which sell ...
mikeydred 23.03.2001
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Advantages: FRESH FOOD GREAT VIARETY Disadvantages: NONE
...SO I WILL UPDATE THEM.THE GRAINGER MARKET IS A FANTASTIC PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BUY LOADS OF HARD TO FIND ITEMS.THE FRUIT AND VEG IS VERY FRESH AND CHEAP.THERE ARE SPECIALISTS SHOPS SUCH AS DOC MARTINS OUTLETS AND WATCH BATT FITTERS AND BOOKSHOPS.RECENTLY ELDON SQUARE DECIDED TO REBUILD PART OF ITS SITE AND THE GREENMARKET WAS CLOSED.THE FRESH FISH SHOPS MOVED INTO THE GRAINGER MARKET AND YOU CAN GET YOUR FISH IN GRAINGER MARKET NOW.I MUST MENTION MARKS ... ...GOOD PET SHOP.LAST BUT NOT LEAST SOMEONE WAS ASKING WHAT A 'GEORDIE' IS.THE ANSWER IS THAT IT IS A NATIVE OF NEWCASTLE.REASON THEY CALLED GEORDIES IS DUE TO FACT SAFETY LAMPS FOR MINERS WERE MADE BY GEORGE STEPHENSON.HOWEVER A RIVAL MADE SOME BUT THE NEWCASTLE MINERS PREFERRED GEORGE STEPHENSONS..HENCE THEY BECAME KNOWN AS GEORDIES AFTER GEORGE ...
peternc 21.06.2009
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The Grainger Market has been around for a long time now. you can fidn absolutely anything in this market. It is covered in, open normal shopping hours, and has stalls ranging from clothes to pet food to books to cd's. A while back there was a quite serious fire in the amrket, but it has recovered well and thrives as ever. It can get quite busy, but the prices are very reasonable, and there are second-hand stalls as well. This place is a big part ...
BAILEY 17.03.2001
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