Queen’s Crescent Market

Queen’s Crescent is named for Queen Victoria who liked to ride in her carriage to West End Lane, Hampstead.

Market traders moved from Malden Road to Queen’s Crescent in 1876 when electrification works were undertaken on Malden Road to replace the horse-drawn trams.

Shortly before the market arrived, the Sainsbury’s family also moved to the street to bring up their family in what was then, one of London’s leafy suburbs. Queen’s Crescent once sported three branches of Sainsbury’s. It is also the original home of Patak’s Indian foods.

As with other traditional street markets, Queen’s Crescent Market was at its busiest in the 1980s and even featured in the third episode of the popular television show Minder.

Queen’s Crescent Market is a great place to buy fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh bread, kitchen and cleaning supplies, bedding, fashion, street food, cut flowers and plants, and much much more.

Apart from the stalls there is a fantastic selection of independent shops and cafes trading seven days a week.

Looking east along Queen’s Crescent from Malden Road