Visiting the Nag’s Head Market in Holloway on a midweek rainy day, what the market is like when it is not performing for anyone, and what a functional working-class north London street market reveals when observed without the romanticising filter that good weather and weekend visitors produce
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat present this dispatch from Lowri Griffiths, North London journalist.
The Nag’s Head Market on Seven Sisters Road on a rainy Wednesday morning is the market without performance: the traders who are there because they are always there, not because it is a market day worth being there for; the customers who need what the market sells at the prices the market sells it for, not because they are making a leisure choice between this and the artisan option. I bought tomatoes, onions, and three mangoes. The trader I bought the mangoes from has been at the same pitch for approximately 25 years, based on the account of the adjacent trader who has been there 30. The tomatoes were cheaper than at the nearest Sainsbury’s. The market is there for the people who live around it. The people who live around it are there for the market. On a rainy Wednesday this relationship is completely visible because no one else is watching it. The weekend market visitor experience — the Saturday morning leisure browse — is an entirely different thing from what the market actually is for the people who use it as a grocery resource. Both are real. The Wednesday version is the more honest one. Bohiney and The London Prat shop on Wednesdays.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
North London Continues
Lowri Griffiths continues to cover North London with the honest, humorous attention of someone who finds it genuinely wonderful and persistently absurd, which are not mutually exclusive responses to a place that offers both qualities in generous measure.
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the wider frame. BigSmokeBroke covers the North London corner in the detail that only local attention can provide. The corner continues to produce material. The coverage continues alongside it.
Further reading at Londonist.
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