Paddy’s Market
“The type of place you go to buy one shoe lace”, was how Paddy’s Market was once described to me. But your opportunity to buy that shoe lace, or the second of the pair, is now gone, the famous and historic Paddy’s Market was finally closed down on this day in May 2009 by Glasgow City Council.
A little while before it closed I ventured there to photograph, with one Leica camera and a pocket full of black and white film. Not the easiest of places to work and photograph, there were many people there who’d rather you didn’t photograph them, mostly the people selling illegal duty-free alcohol, cigarettes and by the time the market was closing a few people either buying, using or selling drugs. But as with anywhere there were also good people, and as ever, as long as you’re polite, not suspicious, and chat to people then you can photograph to an extent.
Here then, some images of the historic, and now gone, Paddy’s Market, Glasgow.
Paddy’s Market, Glasgow, 2000. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, all rights reserved.
Paddy’s Market, Glasgow, 2000. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, all rights reserved.
All images: Paddy’s Market, Glasgow, 2000. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, all rights reserved.