There’s a lot of places in the market hall are empty The price is too high but they are trying to sort it out with the cumbria Council and markets not like when I was a boy going with my parents it’s all changed very sad I’ve lost a lot of friends who had places it’s not that it’s not I can remember it like that just to be fun and I was there and the boy was always full even the farmers came in and selling their product great as I’m old now I only see a few people left on the work they are doing all of them I’ve got friendly with them I cannot say anymore it is just going down the drain it was such a good market market hall Fresh fish normal now there’s a great big hall hall hall where do you sell wrestling father used to take me to watch great days and happy days I don’t want to say anymore it makes me sad I’m not photos I hope you...
   Read morePlease go to visit and support the lovely few vendors who survived at what once used to be this lively and thriving Victorian market hall! The local told me that unfortunately little survived after the roof needed repairs and Carlisle council said there was no money to do so. Instead they have allowed private developers to take half of the market in return for fixing the roof. The developers fixed the roof and rented out to two large shops. One has since collapsed and the other is still there, and I walked through it to get to the old market. Lucky someone told me the way, otherwise I would have missed it. Please, please visit and buy your veg at Benson’s, and sit and have a coffee at Silvia’s. For a few minutes you can feel you are still in this lively Victorian...
   Read moreThe Market Hall in my days it's a everything even these to have wrestling in there and other things too fish market was in there was butchers and fruit and vegetable merchants you could buy anything in there on the weekend they used to be the Farmers selling on benches great days days that's when I was a boy my mother and father is to go shop in there and we met a lot of our friends it had a lovely cafeteria what more can I say the Market Hall was wonderful now I am an old man still enjoying it it's not the same but it's there still all new faces not many old left in the Market Hall I hope you enjoyed this because I did lifetime experience I am sorry I have no pictures but soon as I get some I will put it...
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