Portobello Road Market draws tourists. The main market day for antiques is Saturday. However, there are also fruit and vegetable stalls in the market, which trade throughout the week and are located further north than the antiques, near the Westway Flyover.

The market began as a fresh-food market in the nineteenth century; antiques dealers arrived in the 1960s.

The market section of Portobello road runs in a direction generally between the north-northwest and the south-south-east. The northern terminus is at Golborne Road; the southern end is at Westbourne Grove, to the east. The market area is about 3,080 feet (0.58 miles or 940 metres) long.

About one third of the way from its north end, the market runs beneath adjacent bridges of the A40 road and the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground.

Read about this place in the guidebook I bought and since I didn’t really have much plans on a Saturday, I decided to venture there. I took a train from Croydon to Victoria, and then took the Tube to Noting Hill Gate. When I arrived, I got out of the Tube station and was totally lost as to where to go. There was one sign, but after a while, I got lost. My guide book said all I had to do is follow the crowd, however there was none to be seen. “Perhaps I had the wrong station”, I thought. I asked around and somebody told me to just walk down the road and turn right. I did so, and then I saw it. Tons of shops, selling things from antique watches, old medals and all things British. By 10am, this place was crowded, with tons of tourist and locals alike. This place is awesome.

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Tags: England, london, Market, portobello, Travel

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