Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Market

date posted 28th June 2003 14:32

> Sorry, but it is a Saturday afternoon, I'm pissed and was offered a permie
> job yesterday!!! So, anyway: I know that we have several market places in
> Newcastle and I guess that they used to sell cloth in the Cloth Market;
> probably stuff for horses in the Haymarket, but I'll be buggered if I know
> what they sell in the Bigg Market (apart from after closing times at the
> pub) and the Groat Market. Not to mention the Grainger Market
>
Bigg is the Old English for Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind,
and groat is from the same root as oats, so the whole area was dedicated to
the buying and selling of grain.
The Grainger Market was named after Richard Grainger, who was the business
partner of architect John Dobson, who rebuilt much of the town in the 19th
Century - including Grey Street, recently voted as the best street in
Britain!
You are pretty much right on the other two...

Here endeth the history lesson - and how come you're pissed already?

Paul.