Queen's Market

Originally the stall holders were English Cockney, Gypsy communities and Jewish traders from Whitechapel and the East End, selling clothing and vegetables.

[1] Since the late 1960s and 1970s South Asians from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Asian-Africans started moving families into homes locally and set up stalls and shops along Green Street and inside Queen's Market.

Today Queen's Market has a specialist retail offer of South Asian and African food and textiles.

[2] Following the local campaign, in May 2009 then Mayor of London Boris Johnson directed Newham Council to refuse planning permission to redevelop the market.

[3] A notable trader at the Queen's is Muhammad Shahid Nazir, more commonly known as the One Pound Fish Man.