Comments on: So Long, Sclater St Yard Market

By: Tina Norrie

Tina Norrie — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:01:56 +0000

I,m So Sorry To hear about the market,I will miss It So very much.I have Loved walking through the Market and have many friends there who will be sadly missed.I haved purchased many things from the market,meeting all the stallholders,who always have a kind word and a cheery smile and who I class As friends.I will miss you all.You cold always find what you were looking for down sclater street and Brick lane.The Market Will be sorely missed by all

I have great sadness in my heart for this market.

By: Cathy Flower

Cathy Flower — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:55:56 +0000

Brings me to great sadness.

Sclater St Yard Market is one of my all-time favourite London markets, a very special market place to me.

Thank you to all the traders and my best wishes go out to you all.

I have very much appreciated a wandering weave through on a Sunday, inheriting new bargain treasures, kind hearted sellers plus given a few cheer ups when a Sunday has been blue.

A very precious piece will be taken away from this part of London, not to mention a bite out of me.

Sclater St Yard Market has been a precious privilege.

Precious.

Tears.

By: jenn

jenn — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:47:32 +0000

This is sad because I worked on Brick lane during the week and loved to see the street art in the car park. I used the car park a few times as well. It sounds like this whole area is becoming gentrified now and it will probably lose its charm and character like so many other places. Of course, the flats they will build there will be too expensive for me (and numerous others like me) to buy, and I earn a decent wage. London’s pricing out everyone except the super rich (and maybe the super poor who have no alternatives?).

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:45:06 +0000

How sad that another community meeting place is being destroyed. The greed of the developers and investors knows no bounds. Valerie

By: ROBERT GREEN

ROBERT GREEN — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:13:42 +0000

Well the end is nigh, I speak as a fellow trader in Sclater St all be it unaffected by this phase of change (at the moment ! ! ? ) most of the people featured in this article are friends of mine, one of whom, Sean, I have known for over 30 years, naturally these people as well as serving the community have been trading on this part of the market in order to earn a living in the best way they can, but in all honesty I personally think (in fact I know) that the REAL tragedy going on hear is not so much the loss of part of the market but the destruction of a community, for make no mistake this market is not just a collection of money grabbing people who turn up every Sunday, I know from personal experience that the amount of time and effort these people put in is not even remotely comparable to what they earn, some cynics my question my claim but I know it to be fact, these people are hear week after week come snow rain or sun for one reason only > because they love doing it< they love the camaraderie the friendship their interaction with their customers, many of who are themselves friends, for above all else, the REAL loss hear is not so much the demise of a large part of the market but the beginning of the DESTRUCTION of a COMMUNITY, a destruction that I believe has been long in the planning and I see this phase as being merely one more step towards the ultimate goal of completely eliminating this market and so bringing to an end century's of East End tradition that are now viewed by the money crazed power brokers from above as nothing more than a pointless relic of a bygone era, COMMUNITY = WHAT'S THAT ? CAMARADERIE = RUBBISH, TRADITION = GET REAL, there is MONEY TO BE MADE HERE so get those pointless pest's out of our way and bring in the concrete, I will be there tomorrow with a lump in my throat bidding a heartfelt goodbye to my unfortunate fellow traders in the full knowledge that all to soon it will be ME who will be saying goodbye only when that time comes there will be nobody to bid me a fond farewell, only money crazed developers eager to dance on my GRAVE.

By: Achim

Achim — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:26:17 +0000

It’s a pity when a long-established institution disappears… I’d be very sad if my favourite flea market would close! Just today it will be on again!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Vita

Vita — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:08:01 +0000

I have lost count of the number of ‘So Long’ entries this year when I’ve opened up each email with trepidation to learn of yet another business being squeezed by unscrupulous landlords, developers etc. all greedily grabbing at short term gain. The deep sadness I feel towards the amount of profiled contributors who’ve weathered recessions and managed to support families across 3 generations but now these stalwarts of community are being systematically removed from trading in an extremely controlled and disturbing manner. The landscape is begin altered beyond all recognition and not just the physical.