Market Friday goes to Halifax Borough Market with 👉🏾 @c0ff33a ☕️ 👈🏽

This is my contribution post to #MarketFriday initiated by @dswigle (👈🏽 That's her, Denise) and posted by me @c0ff33a (👈🏽 That's me ☕️). Today we are visiting an actual, fully fledged Market in the town my business premises are based in Halifax, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

That is quite inviting isn't it? This is a permanent indoor market, where individuals can rent a stall space and sell the wares they choose. Some towns have outdoor markets which run on certain days, the traders set up temporary stall tables in the centre of the town for people to buy and browse from. In Halifax we have the indoor Market which is open every day - the market building is quite large and even has apartments above people can rent to live in.

As we enter the market it has a broad walkway, the market is not too busy today which is mostly likely down to the cold and wet weather conditions - most people will be staying home rather then venturing out unless they need to. Most days I am too busy at work to venture out into the town even though it is only a few minutes walk, today however I had to deliver 2200 tea bags to a regular customer. The Square Chapel a long standing customer of mine had a van delivery Tuesday of products including the coffee beans I roast for them for making espresso, cappuccino and latte, hot chocolate powder, caramelised biscuits to serve with drinks and various other essentials. But this morning when I arrived at work they had left an answering machine message - they forgot to order Tea Bags and had run out! One box of tea bags isn't worth driving for, and to be fair I need the exercise so despite the rain I walked down this morning to ensure they could keep serving customers with hot Tea.

And on my way to the Market I decided to drop in a quick #Haturday by @saffisara with it being very wet I decided to keep my head dry with the Sessions beanie - excuse the white marks on my Ski Jacket - it's sun cream rubbed off my face from ski holidays long past. It's the most waterproof jacket I have so I tend to pull it out when the weather is very wet.

Look at this, a lovely flower stall. My snow lady would like a few of these but with Steem at another low and my rented Steem Power costing a literal arm and a leg she will have to look but not touch.

The advantage of an indoor market is when it's raining outside walking around the market inside is still nice and dry. The shops are very varied in here we will see clothing, hardware, fruit and vegetables and even stalls that sell food either sandwiches to go or meals you can sit and eat in. Here we have a clothing stall with a wide range of clothes in sizes to suit everyone, and then to the left a stall selling all sorts of general interest items - they have enhanced the basic design with a natural wood effect top to the stall to make it stand out.

Now this stall has some interesting items for sale, just look at all those different decorated skulls. I'm quite sure @enginewitty might see something he likes - let me know and I'll stick an address label on and post it over - might raise a few eyebrows at customs though!

I had this genius idea of making the less interesting pictures smaller and putting the text next to them, it was a good plan except you actually need to write loads of text next to these pictures to fill in the text space. This stall had scented candles and special healing crystals, @nainaztengra would have been in her element I know she always loves fondling her crystal balls. She's a popular lady as well, I have had to come to the terms with the fact no matter how hard I try on here a tiny tit with a beard is no match for a talented pretty lady who can beguile us all with her amazing tales and ability to Dab at the Pyramids.

They really do have a stall for everything in this market, this one does Doner Meat and Chips, eat in or take away whatever takes your fancy.

Candy stall, for anyone who has a sweet tooth. I know the Pretty Lady @txatxy has a sweet tooth -
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We now find the fresh fruit and veg stall, you can purchase your weeks worth of fresh vegetables here or just take a few days worth depending on when you will be able to come back next. They have an impressive range of produce and it is clearly labelled so you know quickly the cost. Here we can choose from Apples, Banana's, Oranges, Grapefruit, lemon's and even avocado.

Now here we have a stall holder who does not keep his staff for long, you can buy various cloth's and also cushions along with any sort of material to create your own clothing, bedding or furniture. Quite a wide variety of colours and patterns of material in a wide range of sizes - you really could upholster all your furniture from here.

Ooh the Balloon party shop, everything you could wish for to make your party go with a bang!

This is one of those stalls with a little bit of everything to offer, toy's, hardware, cleaning items, general household stuff - a real one stop shop for all those little things you might need for your home. I will apologise about the quality of these pictures, it still get's to me a little that everyone is staring at me photographing stuff - like they are all just looking trying to work out why this random guy is walking around taking photos with his iPhone. I can't yet work out if it is easier for people who have professional grade cameras - because it most likely looks like they are taking advertising photos or pictures for work. So I try and be as quick as I can snapping the various stalls of the market - no careful framing or positioning - walk point and click.

This stall did all sorts of bath bomb type soaps, they have these scented items which you can put in a bath and they fizz away giving off a lovely smell and special foam for your bath. They also had some fun bags on the top shelf, including a Pug photograph bag which is quite special.

On the right a store with a little bit of everything, hardware and general household items whatever you might need can be found here.

And we started this journey take tea to the chapel, and look what we have here a Russian Tea Shop - very different and we can see lovely the decor.

For you keen knitters out there they even have a dedicated wool shop you can purchase your wool from.

If you have a gif that needs wrapping, this stall have you covered.

The last time I came in with my youngest boy, he loved all these fantasy statues on display.

And you can even find a bag to suit every need - the stalls in this market literally have everything you will ever need. I hope you had fun looking around the indoor market with me, it too a while to take in every sight but I hope you all had fun at least.

Finally we leave the Market

taking in the last few stalls on the way

And that says it all, thank you for taking a walk round the Market with me - it's a quirky place but good to have a Look around.

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