Huddersfield A - Z - Queensgate Market

Yesterday I was moaning about the decline of the high street. The one place where independent retailers can still be found, is in Queensgate Market. Here you can find a good old fashioned ironmongers, a wool shop, a stall selling loose biscuits, sweets, cheese, nighties, long-johns, native American memorabilia (bizarrely!), and one solitary surviving fruit and veg stall.

I worked for most of my teenage years in a proper old fashioned fruit and veg shop, and I love the smell of the boxes, the loose potatoes, the pears, the paper bags and the bananas. We used to sell draft vinegar, bring your own bottle, and the arrival of new products - russets, new potatoes, satsumas, strawberries all heralded a new season. Happy days.

Anyway, sadly the market was virtually deserted today, and there are many empty stalls. A shame. The smell and feel of markets just make me think 1970s so I had a play around trying to get a 70s feel in the shot.

Gotta go with a Queen track really, let's have this one.

Enjoy the sunshine.

LATER; - decided it should be fruit and veg songs:-
lemon
tangerine
onions
raspberry

Loads more - not so many veg ones though.

Later still - 9pm tonight, BBC2, a whole hour of Huddersfield.

Even laterer - that BBC2 Town programme stole all my Blips!!!!