Lower Marsh Market London’s oldest and best-loved market streets

The Time Out Love London Awards 2016 are designed to help Londoners share their favourite businesses within the areas in which they live and work. It is a chance for Londoners within the London postcode region to showcase places in their neighbourhood they would recommend to visitors and new residents.

They are five categories: pubs and bars; restaurants; shops; cafés and coffee shops and local culture, by which they mean independent cinemas, galleries, theatres etc. The Time Out Love London Awards 2016 programme has been developed largely around independent businesses, rather than chains with more than ten sites across the capital city.

Lower Marsh Market wins TimeOut Love London Award 2016

Lower Marsh Market has taken first place in the shopping category for Waterloo and Southwark region in The Time Out Love London Awards 2016. With tough competition the areas was awarded this title for the second year running.

Short-listed for the title were other Lower Marsh shops, being What the Butler Wore, I knit London, Little Marshans and Honour.

Lower Marsh Market has grown and developed in 2016 with dozens of new traders joining the market and a number of developments such as the addition of outdoor seating and monthly, free workshops for local residents and employees. In December 2016 Lower Marsh market also introduced a weekly busking spot to the street.

As the market continues to grow and get even better, businesses are looking forward to ongoing support from local residents and workers who visit the market and show their support via social media. It is hoped that 2017 will see a further influx of new visitors to enjoy all that Lower Marsh market offers.

Other awards

Lower Marsh Market wasn’t the only winner in the The Time Out Love London Awards 2016. The winner of the regional Cafés and Coffee Shops category was The Four Corners Café, with three other Lower Marsh café’s, being Café Del Marsh, Love and Scandal and Scootercaffe all short-listed.

The winner of the regional “Local culture” category was Lower Marsh’s independent bookshop Travelling Through with House of Vans as the runner up. Their competitors to the award included the National Theatre, the Old Vic, The Southbank Centre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the British Film Institute and Tate Modern.

Cubana was short-listed in the regional restaurants category which was won by the Laughing Gravy in Southwark.