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Queen's Market, also known asQueen's Road Market, andGreen Street Market, is a historic street market in theLondon Borough of Newham. It lies adjacent toGreen Street andUpton Park tube station.
The street market originated in Green Street at the boundary betweenEast Ham andWest Ham in the lateVictorian era when the new suburb of East Ham began to be developed. Originally the stall holders wereEnglish Cockney,Gypsy communities andJewish traders fromWhitechapel and theEast End, selling clothing and vegetables. The traders were pushed into Queen's Road in 1904 to stop them obstructing the main road and to allow for the passage of trams. It was not until 1925 that theborough obtained statutory powers to regulate street markets.[1]Since the late 1960s and 1970s South Asians from India,Pakistan,Bangladesh,Sri Lanka andAsian-Africans started moving families into homes locally and set up stalls and shops along Green Street and inside Queen's Market. Today Queen's Market has a specialist retail offer of South Asian and African food and textiles. Queen's is one of London's most ethnically diverse street markets serving communities from African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, South American and newer European communities with cheap, affordable and culturally-appropriate food and clothes.
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In the 1960s the mock-Brutalist exterior around the markets space frame structure was covered with a roof, making it one of London's few covered street markets. The market is popular, serving visitors beyond Newham and remains the most successful publicly owned street market in Newham. It is open 4 days a week (open days: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and has started a Sunday Market selling second-hand goods.
In November 2006, in the face of a vigorous local campaign of opposition,Newham Council proposed a redevelopment of the existing market site which was to include a supermarket and luxury housing above a much smaller covered market.[2] Following the local campaign, in May 2009 then Mayor of LondonBoris Johnson directedNewham Council to refuse planning permission to redevelop the market.[3]
A notable trader at the Queen's is Muhammad Shahid Nazir, more commonly known as theOne Pound Fish Man. He rose to fame as a fish trader at the Queen's Market through his composition of amarket trader's song. It became a viral hit through shoppers at the Queen's Market recording him and uploading to YouTube. It has also given Nazir a record deal, with his single released on 7 December 2012.[4]
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