ABSTRACT
Queens Market has operated next to Upton Park tube station in Newham, east London, for just over a century (see fi gure 14.1). Since 1968 the market has been located underneath a purpose-built, open-ended steel and concrete structure which currently houses eighty stalls trading four days a week as well as a series of independently run shops and kiosks (see fi gure 14.2). Besides providing residents with cheap food and household goods, Queens Market has long been a focal point for minority groups, from East European Jews and Germans at the beginning of the twentieth century to the Caribbean and South Asian groups who started to arrive after the Second World War to more recent migrants such as West Africans and East Europeans.
