Woodford Market

All walks of life captured in this short film about this busy market, not all of them are shopping related!

There is an awful lot packed into this short film about a local market by local filmmaker Sydney F. Martin, ranging from the mundane to the quite surprising. We see busy clothes stalls where one man is holding up a new pair of trousers for size. Whilst elsewhere, a man in a turban offers a range fabrics to a lady in a fur coat. A market food stall has hanging chickens galore and a sign offers a glass of Sarsaparilla Wine by the glass as a legacy of the Temperance Movement.

A strong man in vest and leather wrist guards is surrounded by a crowd. Whilst the gory highlight is a man with an inflamed injury on his foot being examined by a local chiropodist holding a very unnecessary magnifying glass surrounded by a crowd! This film is from the collection of Redbridge Museum, Local Studies and Archives.