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So it’s not common to have a building or area dedicated to renting a small square, setting up shop, with dozens to maybe even hundreds of others to sell your th

So it’s not common to have a building or area dedicated to renting a small square, setting up shop, with dozens to maybe even hundreds of others to sell your things? In America we also have car boot sales, although “jumble sales” are called rummage sales here. And yeah, whatever ya call them it’s always fun exploring and buying other people’s stuff. I especially love crystal glass bowls and jars. That and other shiny things bring out the corvid in me.

dcminter 3y ago
Not super common, but again that would be more an "antiques market" or similar (e.g. see Alfies Antiques Market in Marylebone, London) rather than a flea. It's not really that they don't exist, just that the catchall term isn't commonly applied. Incidentally I now live in Sweden where Loppis (literally "flea") markets are common and delightful. Some are all year around affairs while others just pop up at the weekends in the countryside summer months as the population sweeps out of the cities for their summer vacations. I love poking around through other peoples' crap! One last thought - my family used to swing by an antiques auction in Tring in Hertfordshire (the county this cannon was discovered in). Over the years a variety of bits and pieces were acquired there - some rather nice. After my parents died they did the house clearance for us. Dust to dust...