Fabulous if you like car boot sale junk. Some gems in amongst the lot, plus you can get veg there too, and new tat from China. Saves having to order it online. Well worth a visit.
I love this market. Won't go anywhere else for flowers as the stall here sells them alot cheaper than the supermarkets but they are amazing quality. 2 brilliant make up stalls which I use regularly. You can get just about anything, like a proper old fashioned market which a lot of towns and cities are missing. Plenty of food options too
Grade II* listed by Historic England as "Wholesale Market for Fruit and Vegetables, Byram Street (East Side)" the "Huddersfield Open Market" was first 'opened' in 1889 with its prominent ironwork created by the Whessoe Foundry Company of Darlington.
Listed details: Cast iron. Walls and north lights of each aisle roof glazed all over. 6 aisles, each taken on 4 giant iron columns with elaborate foliate capitals. Decorative patterns pierced in girders. Hipped roofs on segment-shaped iron trusses with decorative patterns pierced in them. Glass canopies on pierced ornamental brackets with similar valences. Continuous round-arched lights above these, in 2 tiers, or 3 as ground slopes away towards the east. Frieze with roundels and heraldic ornament.
Happily the 'Open Market' complex is presently being restored to provide a new indoor market, offering street food, shared seating, fresh bread, fruit and vegetables, and other general goods with around 54 stalls and accompanying storage units.
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