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Manchester's lost market that was 'top spot for bargain hunters'
17.07.2023 - 15:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A lost market where shoppers are said to have been able to buy anything from underwear to a coffin has sparked fond memories for the city's bargain hunters.
Grey Mare Lane market in Beswick was one of the city's biggest before it disappeared as a result of major regeneration in east Manchester. The modern market as it was known opened in 1971 but there had been a market on Grey Mare Lane going back to at least 1930.
The market was for many years an important part of the east Manchester community and drew shoppers from far and wide. In 1993, it was uprooted to a temporary spot next to Beswick Precinct when work started on extending the east Manchester relief road.
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The effect on business for the traders was considerable, and in 1994 the Manchester Evening News reported the market, which was "for years the premier spot for Manchester's bargain hunters", had become a "shadow of its former self".
Stallholders had claimed the move was "unnecessary" and said a third of its traders had packed up since they were shifted from their pitches. Thankfully, the market returned once more to its traditional spot in 1995.
In 2003, a co-operative took over the running of the market, leasing the land from the town hall. But in 2011 it suffered a massive blow when a stray firework landed, setting fire to and destroying 60 stalls.
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The market reopened but sadly closed for good a year later after the land was earmarked by the council for a sports centre as part of the regeneration around Manchester City's Etihad Campus.
Recently, photographs of the market have been
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