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Thame Market, Oxfordshire
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vegetables pumpkins"The best market in Oxfordshire", this ancient market has been around since 1230 and is now held on the Upper High Street car park with over 40 stalls.

You'll find.... fruit and veg, fresh fish, local meat, eggs, olives and cheese,

ladies, gents and children’s clothes, underwear, books, pictures, toys, linen, household goods, vacuum cleaners, plants, handbags and luggage, pet foods, garden ornaments, hats, footwear, cards, china, videos and CDs, confectionery, bric-a-brac and the popular WI produce stall.

On the second Tuesday of each month the Farmers’ Market joins the retail traders selling home-grown and local products.

 


Market Days: Tuesday

 

Did you see...

Amazing Mary, 80, takes a little time off

birthdayWe think Mary Tissington's amazing.  She's just celebrated her 80th birthday and still works on her the family market stall, often getting up at 3.30am and working through to teatime. Quite rightly, she decided that after 60 years on the stall she ought to be taking things a bit easy now so she decided to... take Fridays off! - just for a few weeks mind until the weather improves at least.

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Bringing markets into disrepute

fashion, trainers, bagsMore counterfeit goods worth a massive £1m have been seized, this time at Wembley Market.  Stalls were targeted by Tokyngton Safer Neighbourhoods Team in a joint operation with Brent and Harrow trading standards. Disreputable traders were having a disastrous impact on honest market stallholders at the market.

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Market stall to close after 75 years

It's the end of an era for Northampton market stall J Sweet's fashion - the family-run fashion stall is due to close in March after 75 years trading.

Jesse Sweet founded the women’s fashion stall in 1937 when he was 23 and at one time the business stretched to 10 stalls plus a shop in nearby Bradshaw Street. Jesse's brothers and sisters helped on the stalls back in the day

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