You either love or hate markets. If you like markets, Bury is well worth a visit with 50,000 product lines on 370 stalls and 250,000 shoppers every week.
Bury Market is nearly 600 years old (the original licence for a market was granted in 1444). The market calls itself the World Famous Bury Market, which I feel is a bit of a Northern joke (like Wigan Pier which was just a rise in the towpath until they built a Wigan Pier visitor centre (now closed?).
I liked the story in Wikipedia about a Bury family who were on holiday in Blackpool and booked onto a Magical Mystery Tour with a local coach firm and found themselves back on Bury market!
The first two pictures in this blog are of Katsouris Delicatessen, Cafenion and Take Away FoodsThere's something weird about sitting in a Greek cafe eating a full English breakfast (sausage, bacon, eggs, tomato, mushroom and, of course, Bury black pudding) with ciabatta and a cappuccino!
If you did think you were in Greece, the view outside reminds you that you are in Bury.
They have a good selection of sausage, olives, cheesecakes and different breads. If I'd stopped for lunch I might have tried the Meze. Instead I bought some very nice ham of the bone and some apple strudel.
There's a good hall selling fresh meat and fish at competitive prices.
Old fashioned sweet shops.
And bakers like Harry Muffin selling bottom of the oven baps, Chorley cakes, Eccles cakes, and Whinberry (also known as Bilberry) pies.
You're probably wondered why there's only one mention of Bury Black Pudding? That's because it needs a post all to itself!
Web: http://www.burymarket.com
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