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By Chris Haydon · Posted
The year of Councillor Naima Ali's tenure as Southwark Mayor comes to a close on Saturday. Her energy and enthusiasm have made her a popular local figure and she has been dubbed the Hugging Mayor and sometimes the Dancing Mayor. She talked with Chris Haydon on PECKHAM PODCAST about her life journey, FGM and being proud to be British: -
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I'd forgotten about that place. It wasn't a market as such, it was just run by one couple. They did have some quite interesting things. I still have a mirror I got from there, which had been put inside an old painted shuttered window frame from somewhere in India. Mumbai I think. There also used to be occasional indoor markets in the church hall where the cinema now is, next to where the Irish shop used to be. But if memory serves they were usually either jumble sales (do they still exist?) or craft sales before Christmas. There have also been occasional indoor markets at the church hall in Dulwich Village and the church hall at the church in Barry Road up by the Plough. There never seemed to be many people buying things at them. But it does all depend on what is being sold, whether it appeals to the local demographic, where the market is located and how it is publicised. And, obviously, whether it is profitable for the traders. -
By Alan Medic · Posted
How the hell did Mad maxxi do that given the state of the rest of us?
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