'This market has been murdered!'

One of my most vivid memories of growing up is, these tower blocks just behind us that were built, and the excitement of going up and seeing that people had really nice flats.– Penny

There was a big hole there in the kitchen wall. You could see the market. You could see the market down below, through this hole.– Marg

The houses I lived in were small, they were just for small families, but big families lived in them and they were well overcrowded… we never had electric, we had gas, outside. We never had a bathroom, we use to use to baths over the other side of commercial road and we use to go there for weekly baths. I mean we never had nothing.– Joyce

When I first came here I thought I didn’t want to live in the middle of a market, you know, I’d rather live in a street, not a market… but then I realised that its actually quite convenient because everything is here and, yeah it can be a bit loud, but there’s some sort of charm in hearing you know, people selling their stuff.– Fatima