When the British took over Cochin from the Dutch, the market moved out of Mattancherry to Kochi, which had everything from a safety pin to clothes and hardware on offer.

The White Hall Silk Palace, set up in the 1920s by a Muslim trader from Palakkad, was a textile hotspot.

At Broadway, one can find almost everything - ranging from old copper pots (ready to smelt) to latest fashion in clothing and jewellery, books, perfumes, spices.

Broadway has many roadside shops selling electronic goods, leather items, stationery, watches, jewelry and umbrellas.

It is estimated that the market sees a footfall of minimum 5,000 people on holidays but the numbers would touch 20,000 on working days.

[6] Though the project was submitted in the first phase of JNNURM, it failed to take off due to cost escalation and flaws in the DPR.