Comments on: Stuart Goodman in Broadway Market

By: Gary Shaw

Gary Shaw — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:41:38 +0000

Stumbled across this and brought back many memories. I lived in the Cat & Mutton where my mother was Bertha the landlady. We eventually left in 1977 or thereabouts but I have many happy memories of going to London Fields school and growing up as a barrow boy in the market. We used to put the barrows away in an old yard where the rag and bone man lived with his horses in Dericote St.
Some nice shots and remember having my barnet done in Curl up and Dye!!

By: Mo Eeles

Mo Eeles — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:51:17 +0000

Lovely photo of the child at the “Winalot” shop.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:42:22 +0000

Thanks for publishing these marvellous photographs. It’s incredible that they were all captured in one go. As Stuart says “not a gastro pub in sight and no-one had ever heard of a buffalo burger. ”

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:50:25 +0000

Lovely photos. Is that an Austin Maxi with the windscreen bashed in. I used to drive one. Very reliable. I don’t know but I think I prefer the squalor to how London looks now. Thanks Stuart Goodman!

By: Dennis D

Dennis D — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:55:42 +0000

Great photos of a bygone age, lived off the Broadway from 1965 to 1977! Happy Days!

By: M D West

M D West — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:05:28 +0000

I like the hair salon called ‘Curl Up and Dye’ !!

By: Achim

Achim — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:49:56 +0000

Wonderful — 1982 was one of those Years when I spent my time in London Town. And then in Scotland too!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: paul loften

paul loften — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:34:04 +0000

Having lived for many years in the old postcodes E8 and E5, that is Hackney and Clapton I can’t recall this market. I suppose street markets are at not top of the list for a young man whose daily journeys were to school and then work in the city. My local street market was Chatsworth Road and Ridley road and the Dalston Waste which I remember very well. Shopping then involved a frequent compulsory visit to any one of these markets for essentials and other items as there were no supermarkets at all. It is no coincidence that Stuart accidentally stumbled upon the Broadway Market. A street market was a shopping attraction only for those who lived very near it . It was something that brought together the local community.
Nowadays I do my shopping at the local supermarket but I have to use my car when I shop for my family especially when my children are at home. It is basically the only reason why I need to keep my car and not use public transport. Have we actually thought it through about having so many supermarkets for our daily needs and for the enviriomnet that we live in. Is there a better way of organising our lives? Old fashioned street markets may be disappearing but that does not mean that the baby should be thrown out with the bathwater.

By: Akkers

Akkers — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:51:55 +0000

Thanks for this article.
I remember the Broadway looking like this in the 1980’s.
Pollards now that’s an old shop that I remember going in with my parents and Nan.. Also we used to get our fruit & veg from the guy on the stall outside Percy Ingles – happy days

By: John Finn

John Finn — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:07:53 +0000

Lovely, nostalgic photographs – thanks for these. We lived nearby in the early ’70s in a tiny top-floor so-called ‘furnished’ flat (a bed and chair!) and did some shopping in the market at the weekend. I remember particularly the laundrette which was up at the canal end. We’d leave our laundry here in the morning and collect it, washed and dried, on the way home from work.