[2] The market mainly sold hay and straw, butter, poultry, butchers' meat, and other provisions.

In the late nineteenth century it was owned by William Portman, a member of the House of Lords, and operated by solicitors Allen and Edwards on behalf of the estate of the late Thomas Bolton.

[4] Nearly a century later, in the early nineteen eighties, the market was servicing the Kensal Green, Kilburn, Maida Vale, and Paddington areas with mostly fruit and vegetables at the Eastern end of the market (from the junction with Edgware Road to the junction with Salisbury Street), with antiques and vintage wares predominating on the western end of the market (from Salisbury Street to Kensal Green, the site of the Alfies Antique Market since 1976.

[5][6] In the mid-nineties there were about 200 stalls on the market on Fridays and Saturdays with the same split between produce and antiques as a decade before as well as unlicensed traders selling counterfeit designer clothing on the junction with Salisbury Street.

Baker Street, Edgware Road (Bakerloo line), Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines, and Marylebone.