Comments on: Stuart Goodman At Broadway Market

By: Gary Hudson

Gary Hudson — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:45:59 +0000

Hello all, what a fantastic web site, I loved the Broadway, I used to pull out the stalls before school and every Saturday morning, then do a tea round for all the stall holders! I also worked on the stall outside Cooke’s selling and chopping up ells! Worked with joey Cooke and also went to St Paul’s infants and juniors school. I was born in Landsown Drive! No 4 I think and then moved to the flat above the chemist and eventually moved to 59 Marlborough Ave. I spent so many wonderful days in the market, loved every minute of it .

By: Violet

Violet — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:32:01 +0000

I was in born and bred in Ash Grove and Andrews Road. I went to London Fields School until I was nine years old and we moved to Homerton.
My Grandparents and Great grandparents worked in Broadway Market.
My Great grandfather had the fish shop which eventually became Talletts.
There used to be a photo of three young ladies dressed in white aprons and boater hats and a model of a horse and cart in a glass case on display in the shop. My grandmother was one of the girls in the photo. I would like to know what happened to either the photo or the horse and cart
Can anyone help.

By: June walker

June walker — Fri, 17 May 2024 19:35:29 +0000

My mum was Dolly Tallett, brothers Fred & Bill who had the fish mongers shop.
Mum used to sing in the Scott Friday/Saturday nights on occasions while my uncle Fred had the stall outside selling prawn, cockles ect.
When they were going to the Scott the landlady was Rose & Percy.
We had relatives that had Cars pet shop.
When I left school I had a job in Sandra’s clothes shop, it was on the corner opposite the Scott , I worked for a Mr Cohen (Nick) , his brother had a business on the bridge making high chairs on the upper floor of the building, downstairs was a wood company, I went out with the son (Larry, I think he was the son of the owner/manager.
.I went to Seabright primary then Haggerston secondary.
Memories.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:32:58 +0000

Hi does anyone remember the name of the bookies in broadway market in the 70’s?

By: Mary Carmel

Mary Carmel — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:42:40 +0000

I had a Saturday job in what was known as The Biscuit Shop which was next door to a grocery/deli owned by the same people. I believe it was called Raphael’s but I may be wrong?
The shop sold every kind of biscuit, loose or in packets. Does anyone remember it?

By: Tom Evans

Tom Evans — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:06:18 +0000

Great to see these photos.I lived by the kids play area at London fields.
The market was packed in the 60s,but by late 70s so many people had moved away.
I visited recently,so nice its all being looked after by the new well off community

By: Judi Hall (Swainsbury)

Judi Hall (Swainsbury) — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:06:22 +0000

I loved the Broadway, spent many happy hours roaming around there and London Fields, as a teenager. We lived in Middleton Road and I went to Gayhurst Road school. Although I have lived in Somerset for years now, I always call this area home. It was sad when the market got so run down but, I have visited it many times over the years and actually love what it has evolved into. So much better than it being demolished and forgotten.
The whole area sits in my heart, it made me who I am today xx

By: Desmond St.Rose

Desmond St.Rose — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:04:44 +0000

I attended London Fields Primary School from 1978 to 1985, and lived on Middleton Road until the early 90s. The Broadway market, as desolate as it was back then, was very much a part of my world. Give me 10p and I was straight down Kenny’s sweetshop for “10 pence worth of penny sweets”, not forgetting the “please” at the end. Looking at these old photos really brought a tear to my eye, as I recognised so many of the people in them. The broken biscuit stall was very popular back then, as was Rogers Delicatessen. Mum used to work as a machinist in Ada Street, and would leave me with Aunty Anne of a morning to later drop me off to school. She lived in the flats on Whiston Road, so we’d walk through the bottom end of the market most days to get to school.
I always wondered why there were so few stalls in the market back then, but it had a soul back then, which is now long gone. It was a traditional east end market, and people knew each other. Our regular shops were Kenny’s, AW Bradbury for Paraffin and light bulbs, the Dry Cleaners, June’s Food store (mum’s cousin) for West Indian food, Percy Ingles, The Post Office, Clarks Chemist, Danny’s stall, John’s Fruit stall, Rogers Delicatessen and the Fish & Chips shop near Ada street .
John Biddall’s funfair used to set up in the park, opposite London Fields School every summer. I cannot explain the euphoria I would feel just seeing the caravans and colourful rides pull up and quickly assemble into a fun land of thrills, lights, candy floss and the smell of hot-dogs. All perfectly visible from The Broadway Market, Hackney…….my world.

By: Philip Sims

Philip Sims — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:31:15 +0000

I hope someone replies to this ?

Ive other photographs of The Broadway Market, especially 51 “Sims Florist” which I would happily share. Ive a number showing the various Pubs in the road (or on the corner 🙂 )

So if ‘The Editor’ reads this please get in contact – or view them on my Ancestry page under John Henry Sims 2, and John Henry Sims 3 .

By: Philip J F Sims

Philip J F Sims — Wed, 25 May 2022 17:08:27 +0000

What a surprise to see a photograph of my Father heading up the pages about Broadway Market.

Thank you to my son James, who sent me the link to Spitafields Life.

The images of the ’80’s certainly show the Market at its worst time. My recollections are of it as a busy and crowded place when I was taken to the shop as a child, during school holidays etc.