St Stephen Place - Stockbridge Market

This is the only remnant of the original Stockbridge market, a "modern" farmers market is open about 200 yards away off Kerr Street on Sundays and Thursdays and well worth a visit.

The market was modelled on Liverpool's market and opened in 1825. The developer Captain Carnegie, owned the two tenements on either side of the image. His market didn't have an untroubled existence. There were complaints from traders about ventilation, and it was semi-abandoned at the start of the 1850's, after only twenty- five years, when the fish market was shut but some fleshers maintained premises there till the turn of the last century.

It finally closed in 1906.