East Street Market
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East Street Market is a busy street market in Walworth in South London. It is large and vibrant and is good for African and Caribbean fruit and vegetables, material and household goods.
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[edit] Location
East Street is in the London Borough of Southwark and is between Walworth Road on the western side and the Old Kent Road on the Eastern side. It is located at 51°29′N 0°05′W / 51.483°N 0.083°W.
The market runs down East Street from the junction with Walworth Road to Dawes Street. The main entrance to the market is from Walworth Road. A bus stop on Walworth road serves the market, with a large number of buses arriving from Elephant and Castle or Camberwell Green. These include bus numbers 12, 35, 40, 45, 68, 148, 171, 176 and 468.
[edit] History
East Street market is also known locally as 'The Lane'. There has been a market on this site since 1880.
East Street is also the birthplace of Charlie Chaplin and features in the title sequence to the television programme Only Fools and Horses.
[edit] Opening times
It is open every day except Monday. Sunday is the busiest day as the market consists of over 250 stalls including the weekly plant market.
[edit] Politics
East street forms the boundary between two parliamentary constituencies and is therefore in the unusual position of being represented by two members of parliament. The north side of the street is in the North Southwark and Bermondsey parliamentary constituency represented for the past 26 years by Simon Hughes of the Liberal Democrats. The south side of East Street is represented by Harriet Harman, the Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham.
Similarly, East Street forms the boundary line between the wards of East Walworth on the north side and Faraday on the south side, both in the London Borough of Southwark. East street is therefore represented in Southwark Council by six councillors, one libdem and five Labour. The East Walworth councillors are Cllr. Jane Salmon (Liberal Democrat), Cllr. Martin Seaton and Cllr. Kirsty McNeil (both Labour). Faraday ward is represented by three Labour Party councillors: Paul Bates, Lorraine Lauder and Abdul Mohammed.
East Street is under the jurisdiction of Walworth Community Council.
