Scenes from Druid/ Maltby Streets Saturday 2nd July

Signs and scenes from the Druid and Maltby Streets area.

St John Bakery: licence application to sell alcohol – bottles of wine

Large warehouse and passing cyclist

Nectarines and peaches@Tony Booths

Jacob's Ladder

Basque Pig

Scenes from Druid Street today

Mushrooms@Tony Booth's

Morilles@£35 a kilo

After fighting my way through the crowds at lunchtime yesterday in Borough Market to get to the Northfield Farm stall, it was a relief to go to Druid and Maltby Street to shop in comfort and space. All right the chicken from Northfield was excellent but the crowds were certainly a disincentive and having bought the chicken I only wanted out as quickly as possible and felt no desire to explore other stalls.

More vegetable scenes

The always popular St John bakery

Jacob's Ladder (meat and chickens)

Topolski – sausages, horseradish etc.

Flats and the Shard

Signs

Railway wallflower

Saturday mushrooms@Tony Booth + doughnuts, Druid Street, London

Still life with mushrooms

With being away recently, today was our first visit to Maltby/ Druid Street market area since late January. Clearly the area is becoming more known with more people about although there is still lots of space and the stallholders/shopkeepers have time to chat. I noted a fairly frequent succession of cars and taxis drawing up at the St John Bakery to buy bread, doughnuts etc.

Wickedly rich but light cream doughnut

Also two new outlets have opened in the Maltby/Druid Arches – Gergovie Wines and Mons the cheesemonger, which are the subject of the next post.