# Strutton Ground Market > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Strutton_Ground_Market > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Strutton_Ground_Market.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strutton_Ground_Market > Source revision: 1311945831 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Strutton Ground Market Strutton Ground Market in 2008 Location Strutton Ground, St James's, London Coordinates 51°29′50″N 0°08′02″W / 51.497194°N 0.133796°W / 51.497194; -0.133796 Address Strutton Ground, St James's, London Opening date 1862 (164 years ago) (1862) Management City of Westminster Owner City of Westminster Environment Outdoor Goods sold Street food, household goods, fashion Days normally open Monday to Friday Number of tenants 10 Website westminster.gov.uk/licensing/markets-and-street-tradin Strutton Ground Market Location in City of Westminster **Strutton Ground Market** is a small outdoor [street market](/source/Street_markets_in_London) in the [St James's](/source/St_James's) area of the [City of Westminster](/source/City_of_Westminster). It takes place on Strutton Ground. [Licences to trade](/source/Street_trading_licence) are issued by [Westminster City Council](/source/Westminster_City_Council). The market is located on a narrow cobbled street, Strutton Ground, between Victoria Street and Greycoat Place/Great Peter Street. The market is open weekdays from 10:00 to 16:00. The market mainly caters to local residents and the office population in the immediate Victoria Street area, selling food, groceries, books, and clothing, but is becoming increasingly popular with tourists. ## History Traders moving from Broadway St James's began the market[1] around 1862 and it gradually grew until it lined both sides of the street by the end of the nineteenth century. At this time it numbered around 50 stalls on a Saturday and 25 during the week. The market was predominately fresh food and flowers with some clothing, especially secondhand clothes, and served a poor community. Whilst a few of the stalls were erected by shopkeepers, most were run by costermongers.[2] Between the wars, the market was noted for its floristry and did a brisk trade furnishing flowers for events at the Houses of Parliament.[1] In the 1980s the market is described as still being focused on fresh food and clothing but now catering to office workers on their lunch breaks.[3][4] By the mid nineteen nineties, the market had been reduced down to 20 pitches with only a couple of fruit stalls and one florist remaining. Whilst cheap clothing was still available to buy the other traders were focused on office workers with watches, greeting cards, and umbrellas available.[5] In the twenty-first century the market followed the trend of the shops and focused on street food served to office lunch crowd. During the [COVID-19 pandemic](/source/COVID-19_pandemic) the market was the setting for [Chris Whitty](/source/Chris_Whitty), the then [Chief Medical Officer](/source/Chief_Medical_Officer), being harassed by a member of the public with the confrontation appearing on social media and then the national news.[6] ## Transport ### Bus Bus Routes [2](/source/London_Buses_route_2), [11](/source/London_Buses_route_11), [24](/source/London_Buses_route_24), [26](/source/London_Buses_route_26), [148](/source/London_Buses_route_148), [N11](/source/London_Buses_route_N11), [N26](/source/London_Buses_route_N26), [N44](/source/London_Buses_route_N44), and [N136](/source/London_Buses_route_N136). ### Railway and tube The nearest station is [St James's Park](/source/St_James's_Park_tube_station) . ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-benedetta1936_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-benedetta1936_1-1) Benedetta, Mary & [Moholy-Nagy, László](/source/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Moholy-Nagy) (1936). [*The Street Markets of London*](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72717). London: London John Miles. pp. 25–30. Retrieved 12 July 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-report1893_2-0)** Public Control Committee (1893). "Appendix B". London Markets, Special Report of the Public Control Committee Relative to Existing Markets and Market Rights and as to the Expediency of Establishing New Markets in or Near the Administrative County of London (Report). London: London County Council. p. 38. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-bergström1989_3-0)** Bergström, Theo & Forshaw, Alec (1989). *The Markets of London* (Revised ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 91–92. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-perlmutter1983_4-0)** Perlmutter, Kevin (1983). *London Street Markets* (1st ed.). Worcester: Billing & Sons. p. 62. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7045-0462-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7045-0462-6). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-harriss1996_5-0)** Harriss, Phil (1996). *London Markets* (1st ed.). London: Cadogan Books. pp. 52–54. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-86011-040-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-86011-040-1). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-roach2021_6-0)** Roach, April (4 February 2021). ["Mother of teenager who called Chris Whitty a 'liar' has confiscated her son's PlayStation"](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/teenager-abused-chris-whitty-mother-confiscate-playstation-b918614.html). *[The Evening Standard](/source/The_Evening_Standard)*. [London](/source/London). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20230319163304/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/teenager-abused-chris-whitty-mother-confiscate-playstation-b918614.html) from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2024. ## External links - [The City of Westminster's markets webpages](https://www.westminster.gov.uk/licensing/markets-and-street-trading/) - [Strutton Ground Market—National Market Traders Federation](https://www.nmtf.co.uk/market-near-me/strutton-ground-outdoor-market) v t e City of Westminster Districts Adelphi Aldwych Bayswater Belgravia Chinatown Clare Market Covent Garden Fitzrovia Hyde Park Kilburn Knightsbridge Lisson Grove Little Venice Maida Vale Marylebone Mayfair Millbank Paddington Paddington Green Pimlico Queen's Park St James's St John's Wood Soho Strand Tyburnia Victoria Westbourne Green Westminster Attractions Apsley House Banqueting House Benjamin Franklin House British Dental Association Museum British Optical Association Museum Buckingham Palace Canada House Gallery Churchill War Rooms Clarence House Courtauld Gallery Crime Museum Faraday Museum Alexander Fleming Museum The Guards Museum Handel Hendrix House Horse Guards Household Cavalry Museum Hunterian Museum Institute of Contemporary Arts Kennel Club Dog Art Gallery King's Gallery London Film Museum London Transport Museum Madame Tussauds Mall Galleries National Gallery Palace of Westminster Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academy of Music Museum Royal Mews Sherlock Holmes Museum Somerset House Spencer House Tate Britain Trafalgar Square Twinings Museum Two Temple Place Wallace Collection Wellington Arch West End theatre Westminster Abbey London Zoo Parks and open spaces Green Park Hyde Park Kensington Gardens Regent's Park St James's Park Constituencies Cities of London and Westminster Kensington and Bayswater Queen's Park and Maida Vale Local government Westminster City Council Elections 2010 2014 2018 Queen's Park Community Council Bridges Chelsea Bridge Grosvenor Bridge Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges Lambeth Bridge Vauxhall Bridge Waterloo Bridge Westminster Bridge Rail and tube stations Baker Street Bayswater Bond Street Charing Cross Charing Cross Edgware Road Edgware Road Embankment Great Portland Street Green Park Hyde Park Corner Lancaster Gate Leicester Square Maida Vale Marble Arch Marylebone Oxford Circus Paddington Paddington Paddington Piccadilly Circus Pimlico Queensway Regent's Park Royal Oak St James's Park St John's Wood Temple Tottenham Court Road Victoria Warwick Avenue Westbourne Park Westminster Art and architecture Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings 1–9 A–Z Public art Other topics Blue plaques People Schools Category v t e Markets in London Historic Old Billingsgate Covent Garden Cumberland Market Farringdon Fleet Hungerford Market Leadenhall Metropolitan Cattle Smithfield Old Spitalfields Stratford Noted Bermondsey Borough Brick Lane Camden Lock Camden Passage Columbia Road Greenwich Petticoat Lane Portobello Road Historic charter Barking Barnet Croydon (Surrey Street) Romford Uxbridge Local Backyard Berwick Street The Blue Broadway Brixton Chalton Street Chapel Chrisp Street Deptford Earlham Street East Street Edmonton Green Exmouth Goodge Place Inverness Street Leather Lane Lower Marsh Merton Abbey Mills Plender Street Queen's Queen's Crescent Rathbone Ridley Road Seven Sisters Market Shepherd's Bush Strutton Ground Sunday UpMarket Swiss Cottage Walthamstow Watney Modern wholesale Billingsgate Fish New Covent Garden New Spitalfields Smithfield Western International This article about a marketplace or bazaar is a stub. 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