‘There’s no place like this’: shoppers and traders fear for Birmingham indoor market’s future

Current site is due to be demolished to make way for housing in new disruption to city’s long trading traditionEvery week, 80-year-old Frank catches a train from Walsall to Birmingham. He threads through gleaming shopfronts in Grand Central station and past the Bullring before slipping into the fish-scented bustle on the ground floor of Edgbaston Street car park. At Birmingham indoor market he buys a bag of cockles. “Where else would you find this quality?” he says. “There’s no place like this, it’s the heart of Birmingham.”But Frank’s weekly visits may soon come to an end. Plans to demolish the market and replace it with housing were approved at the end of October. Continue reading...