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just got sent this by my mum:

They are going to shut down Camden stables market this month.
There is an online petition to try and stop this happening.
Please go to www.savecamdenstablesmarket.co.uk and sign to try and stop this.

AUGUST 2007 UPDATE: SADLY THE PLANNING APPLICATION WAS PASSED BY CAMDEN COUNCIL LAST YEAR. HOWEVER WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE TO TRY & STOP THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHES SCHEDULED FOR 28 AUGUST 2007! WE STILL NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SIGNATURES!! PLEASE E-MAIL KEN LIVINGSTONE (mayor@london.gov.uk) WITH YOUR PROTESTS & CHECK THE FORUM FOR UPDATES!!

to anyone who's enjoyed a day pottering around this unique market: please sign the petition!
thanks

Done. God knows we have enough shopping malls, we should all support efforts to keep local identities in our own areas too.

;)

Done- it sounds worth saving.

I won't be signing the petition.

I used to take my son there on a Sunday when he was but a sprout. We'd wander round the stalls, jam packed with interesting and eclectic stuff, listening to the music from the busking bands, and watching all manner of street theatre acts - jugglers, fire eaters, you name it. Then there came a "refurb". The place was tarted up - nice new fixtures and fittings and so on.  More upmarket i.e. expensive goods became ever more prevalent. Locals couldn't afford to rent a stall in 'their own' market. The street theatre and buskers were banned. Camden Lock more or less died overnight. Gradually it has become a place for outsiders to sell to outsiders. The locals just get to pick up the cleaning bill. Oh, and the discarded drugs paraphernalia.

So no, I won't be trying to flog this dead horse - though you'd probably find just such an item at the Lock - stuffed, mounted and going for around ten grand.

Besides, who knows - we might get a Wilkinsons!

;D

:( I have to admit I haven't been to the market in years but have fond memories of it being exactly as you described, amazin.
that's very sad.

I shall watch the courgette one with interest - I'm about to reap a crop from my lottie that isn't radishes (well, isn't only radishes anyway)! 

I know that he's a little bit overdone cockeny-geezer init, but I guess if it gets people with similar trendy pretensions, who get everything from the super market, into growing their own then it's not a bad thing really.