Camden Market

As Camden Market is a collection of various markets in and around the Camden High Street is referred to. They form one of the most famous and largest markets of London. It is located in the district of Camden Town and is per week attended by around 500,000 people.

The market consists of six neighboring market areas:

• Camden Lock Market, founded in 1974, in 1991 a new market hall was opened.
• Stables Market in the north of the area. It has the largest area of ​​all the areas; it offered mainly garments and furniture. Against the reconstruction of the market and the location of major fashion chains in 2007 and London residents had protested.
• Camden Canal Market in the northeast of the area, right on the Regent's Canal. The market was devastated 9 February 2008 by fire. Here, the popular among celebrities pub "The Hawley Arms " was heavily damaged.
• Buck Street Market in the south, near the metro station Camden Town
• Electric Ballroom in the premises of an old clubs from the 1930s, at the weekend, it serves as a club and on two days a week as Market. In the Electric Ballroom playing rock bands and musicians such as Madness, Iggy Pop, U2 or Sid Vicious.
• Inverness Street, a side street of Camden High Street in the southwest of the area, where many pubs and bars are located.

Immediately adjacent to the markets, several media companies have settled. So there you have MTV, among others, the AP news agency, as well as the German channel RTL on Camden market their studios. The devastating fire in February 2008 was not the first of its kind Already in October 1980 were parts of the market destroyed by fire.

In May 2009, over a year after the devastating fire, the Camden Market opened its doors with over a hundred new stores under the new name Camden Lock Village again.