Get to Brick Lane Market by taking the Overground to Shoreditch High Street, and walking out. Left on Sunday mornings take you to a fantastic second-hand market.
My favourite time to go is Sunday morning because that is when all the stallholders come out with their wares in the morning - there are people who seem to put everything in their house on a table and try to sell them all...
Sometimes you can find really interesting things - books, old vinyls or CDs, bicycle tires, little decorative trinkets - I bought a metal plate that predicts the date for 45 years. Also a ceramic horse.
My favourite sweater at the moment was also purchased from Brick Lane - there are so many fashion shops on the road itself, but I like looking at the used clothes section in the secondhand market.
Also wanted to buy this old photo album, but I felt like I was violating those people's memories and decided on a philosophical level to not hoard the images of other people....
So many interesting shops.
Sometimes the displays can be so beautiful you don't want to buy anything for fear that you spoil the delicate harmony of old timeless pieces working in unison. This looks straight out of a modernist interior design magazine - flowers and all.
Camera aficionados can orgasm over this.
This is one of the best markets in my opinion if you've got no idea what you're looking for and all you want is a bargain. Portobello is full of tourists but this place is so dirty and gritty....
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