Broadway Market is a street located in Hackney, in the London Borough of Hackney, and is best known for the street market held there. Licences to trade are issued by a committee of councillors from Hackney London Borough Council.

The street is on the traditional boundary of the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch (the south-west part of the street) and old Hackney borough.

History

In 1893 the London County Council's Public Control Committee states that the Market had existed since 1883 on the southern end of the Street between Andrew Street and Duncan Road and consisted of 35 stalls selling: vegetables and fruit, flowers, eggs, meat, fish, bacon, earthenware, drapery, iron and tinware, mats and pails, and caps and belts. The report describes a growing market serving a local, over-crowded, working-class community.

Of the 35 stalls 10 are recorded as being run by Broadway Market shopkeepers with the remainder being independent street traders.

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  • Broadway Market Website of the Broadway Market Traders and Residents Association
  • Save Tony's Café! Ongoing Broadway Market Campaign news
  • EASTeight Magazine for the Broadway Market area
  • 'Market forces' Hari Kunzru, The Guardian, December 2005
  • 'The Cleansing of Hackney' Paul Kingsnorth, The Ecologist, March 2006
  • 'The best on Broadway' Tom Moggach, thelondonpaper, December 2006