Bury Market has been voted the country's favourite again - but what makes it so brilliant?
04.02.2022 - 15:58
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Bury Market may be hundreds of years old - but it's as popular as ever - having just been voted Britain's Favourite Market.
Today (Thursday, February 3), judges at the Great British Market Awards 2022 presented the trophy to the town's famous market for the second time.
But what is it about Bury Market that shoppers like so much?
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Eileen Gilroy, from Stalybridge, says Bury is lucky to still have the market.
"Even if you don't get a bargain you feel like you've got a bargain," she said.
For her, markets are 'therapeutic' and even create a sense of family.
"There's so many different levels to markets, but it's about people. It's not about anything else than people," she said.
For another shopper the M.E.N spoke to, the reason she loves the market is simple.
"It's the nearest to me and I like Bury Market," she said.
She lives five miles away, and for her, it seems to be a way of life.
"There's different shops in different places. It's convenient and I see friends," she said.
In many ways, Bury Market it is the town centre. It's where she does all of her shopping, and where all her friends do their shopping too.
It's certainly at the core of the town - and always has been - something not all historic market towns are still able to claim.
Bury Market may be the glue that holds the town together - but it's certainly not just loved by locals.
It's a tourist destination in its own right
Coaches line up, especially in the summer, bringing in shoppers from elsewhere in the UK to visit the famous market.
Perhaps it's down to those visitors that Bury Market has been voted most popular in the country once again.
One stall owner,