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A famous Liverpool market is a "hive of activity" following its return from a six month break. Granby Street Market, found in Toxteth, welcomes hundreds of people on the first Saturday of every month, except January, from 10am until 3pm.
At the beginning of September 2025, the organisers made the announcement on Facebook to say the market would remain closed until March 2026 in order to "focus and improve" policies and procedures as well as recruit more volunteers. The market reopened gradually, with a small amount of stallholders on March 7 and is now back operating at full force.
Granby Street Market has been a firm part of the community in L8 for well over a decade after launching as a summer community market and moved to Granby Street in 2016 as part of the area's regeneration.
Deb Underhill, 49, from Toxteth, sold handmade jewellery at the market for years before taking on a volunteer leadership role in running the market within the last couple of months. She told the ECHO: "The market was started in 2010 by a few local residents who started putting tables out on Cairns Street mainly as an act of defiance because the area had gone through a period of decline.
"It started as a way to bring the neighbours together and show everyone that the area was alive and thriving."
Deb said that since the market temporarily closed, a whole new team of volunteers have taken over the responsibility for running it. She said: "The market is such a community hub and everybody comes out and has a nice time. Even if it's raining or windy, everyone is smiling and chatting while they browse and it's such a beautiful thing to see. It's a hive of activity.
"It's not only well supported by local people and we have people who drive from all over just to come and see it. A couple of months ago we had someone who came all the way from Sheffield."
The market can accommodate up to 80 traders who sell a range of items from art and vinyl records to home décor and bric-a-brac. Deb, who is responsible for liaising with traders and booking them onto the market, said: "We have so many cultures represented in just our food selection. We have Caribbean, Pakistani, Somali, Peruvian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Italian, Nigerian and Malaysian food traders so we've basically got the whole world represented.
"The main aim of the market is to support small local businesses so I try to make sure we have a wide range of things people are selling to give everyone the best opportunity to make some money and further their business.
"There's not been huge changes since the market has reopened apart from updating policies and procedures. We've kept the same people and the same traders that were regulars with the old administration because why break something that isn't really broken?"
Alongside the market, the Granby Winter Garden is another community project run by local volunteers. It was first opened in March 2019 with the garden designed and planted by the gardener in residence Andrea Ku.
The space is owned and run by the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust and is part indoor garden and part activity hub that offers weekly drop-in sessions on Mondays from 2-5pm and Sundays from 12-5pm.
Deb moved to the Toxteth area in 2016 and said she couldn't be happier to be so involved. She said: "The community is absolutely amazing and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else because the neighbourhood is so welcoming and inviting. I lived in Garston before and I didn't even know my neighbours so living here is so different and it's such a thriving, lovely community that I've not seen anywhere else.
"As a market we really value being community first and one of the things we really pride ourselves on is diversity and inclusion. We welcome everyone in and enjoy every single minute of it. I think the market shows how resilient we are as an area and as people because we're not going to let anything get us down."
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