Grainger Market

The Grainger Market in Newcastle is a North East institution. It opened in 1835 after an opening ceremony attended by over 2,000 people. The market boasted 243 shops including numerous butchers and vegetable stalls, and 14 entrances.

The Grainger Market is one of the only remaining the 19th century covered markets still trading as a market. Today it employs 800 people and boasts 200,000 shoppers every week. The Grainger Market was built by Richard Grainger and architect John Dobson in 1835. It revolutionised shopping in its day. When it opened it was the largest indoor market in the world.

The market was laid out in a grid-iron pattern with 156 butchers shops and an arcade selling fruit and vegetables. Even today the Grainger Market has managed to keep some of its original features. There has been a weigh house since the market was built to weigh hunks of meat. Today it's the shoppers who queue up to be weighed. The "Marks and Spencer Original Penny Bazaar" in The Grainger market is reputedly the smallest M&S outlet in the World.

The market also still has an air raid shelter underneath the length of the arcade.
The Grainger Market has survived fires, two world wars and threatened demolition, and is about to undergo another transformation with improvements to bring it into the 21st century.


Description courtesy of The BBC.

26th May 2018

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22nd March 2016

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25th November 2014

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10th March 2009

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26th August 2007

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More Information:

• BBC Nation On Film - Grainger Market
• Sitelines - Grainger Market
• Grainger Market Delivery
• Our Grainger Market
• Co-Curate - Grainger Market
• Historic England - Grainger Market

See my other photos around The Grainger Market:

• Clayton Street
• Grainger Street
• Grainger Street - St John The Baptist Church
• Nelson Street
• Newgate Street
• Old Photos of The Grainger Market