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Market day
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St Ives
Cambridgeshire
Click Oliver Cromwell (who once lived here) to go to contents list.
A personal view
by Philip Grosset
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Market Hill is full of market stalls every Monday morning and there's a smaller market on Fridays. The really big market, seen above, is held on Bank Holidays. The Free Church (in the background) has a popular inexpensive snack bar much used on on market days!
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There is a particularly good choice of plant and fruit stalls. |
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The same stalls return every week, and can offer good value for money. |
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"How about this one?" |
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| The market fish stall on Market Hill is here on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays , and offers excellent fresh fish brought in daily from Grimsby. |
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Where the market began. Looking down the Broadway towards the centre of town.The buildings in the middle (the ugliest in St Ives?) separate Crown Street (on the left) from Merryland (on the right). These buildings were built on the site of the original market stalls that used to be set up in the centre of what was once a very wide road. The monument celebrates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, although it wasn't actually erected until 1902. A Fenstanton brewer had seen something similar at Sandown while on a holiday in the Isle of Wight and been inspired to commission it! It originally served as a drinking fountain.
In 2001, Heffers, the electrical shop seen in the above left photo, swapped places with Piggotts the jewellers, as shown in the photo on the right. The result is that the frontage of the building looks smarter, but nothing could be done about the basic shape!
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Go on to to see some of the local SHOPS
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