Conran Street market – Modern Mooch

On my previous photographic visit to Conran Street Market the place was deserted, the cleaner had kindly let me in to take some snaps.

It is due to close this coming Saturday 19th July, after more than a century of trading.

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I absolutely love Conran Street Market. I have been going for years, I honestly wished I would have taken a photograph on every visit. It’s my feel good place that brings back so many memories, friendly, funny, a look at life in every visit. What an absolute pleasure to have experienced it as long as I can remember.

Mo A

This is a local basic market with few modern amenities and no access considerations. You may find some bargains on a good day but many of the stalls stand empty, and the general disrepair all around is grim. One word about the toilets: don’t.

Judy S

So it goes – a rainy Tuesday, following days of summer sunshine, paddling in puddles, as the drips dripped off the stalls’ sagging roofs, some empty some laden, with this that and the other.

Upright citizens at large in a skewed world, hi vis, low cost goods with nowhere else to go.

Coat hangers just about hanging on.

Conran St Harpurhey Manchester M9 5PR

One of the last privately owned markets in the city, is to close on July 19th 2025, after serving the area for over a century.

The family which owns the Harpurhey site has decided to put the acre of land and its existing redbrick buildings up for sale. It will be auctioned off with a guide price of £450,000.

It’s so sad the stall holders, and the community that surrounds the market, have lost their place to go on weekly basis, meeting friends for brew and bacon butty, chats and last minute buys, rummaging around in boxes finding treasures. The previous owner Mike, would have fought tooth and nail to keep this beloved market open, he would be turning in his grave.

Helen Jessup

I visited on 30th January 2023 – the gate was open there was nobody home, except the cleaner and me.

Princess Cinema It is listed in Kinematograph Year Books from 1927 to 1954, but had gone from listings by 1962. It had a Western Electricsound system. The upper part was later removed after a serious fire and the remainder became an indoor market.

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