Recent sales at Charing Cross Collectors’ Market in June included a 1948 Hong Kong $100 note which was issued by HSBC and sold for £250 (top left in this picture).
One of the longest-running niche markets in London has reopened post-lockdown and trader numbers are rising slowly, says Bridget Pettecrew, organiser of the Charing Cross Collectors’ Market in the arches below Charing Cross Station in London.
Pettecrew, who said “like Platform 9¾, the market is hidden away from the crowds”, inherited its running from her father Rodney Bolwell who founded the early morning market in the 1970s.