Columbia Road Flower Market – Sunday 5th March 2023

Description

Off we head bright and early to the rather famous Columbia Road flower market in the heart of the East End of London.

Columbia Road Flower Market is open from 8am  with the street’s shops following suit – Columbia Road is in the East End, sitting on the edge of the City, with Shoreditch to the west and Brick Lane and Spitalfields both nearby.

In 1869 Angela Burdett-Coutts  established Columbia Market as a covered food market with several hundred stalls. Angela also built the separate U-shaped Columbia Dwellings building along with a three-storey Gothic arch built into the brickwork of the central section.

The building was demolished in 1958, although the remains of railings can be seen in front of the Nursery School. Sivill House and the Dorset Estate replaced the Coutts buildings. Angela’s husband William Burdett-Coutts came to own the market and had grand plans to sell fish there by building a railway line to the market in order to connect it to the coast. However, his plans did not come to fruition due to his competitors at Billingsgate. The market then closed in 1886.

Estimated times:-

WALNUT TREE 6.30AM

ELMS 6.50AM

HADLEIGH 7AM

SADLERS 7.10AM

FIVE BELLS 7.20AM

arriving around 8.15am.. we depart at 1pm (time for some brunch or lunch in one of the fantastic local pubs)

– you can take your plants onto the coach or store in the hold.

The coach will drop you at the entrance and collect you from the same point.