Red Brick Market

If you love thrifting, vintage clothes, handmade jewellery, secondhand vinyl, charming curios, retro homeware, old comics, and the like, you will love Red Brick Market. It’s a huge warehouse carved up into 200+ intriguing little shops, all independently owned, and selling all manner of beguiling and beautiful items. 

Each shop isn’t much bigger than a wendy house or a walk-in cupboard. You get the feeling you’re rifling through someone’s (very cool, perfectly curated) wardrobe at times. There must be a dozen or so vintage clothing shops in here, selling everything from retro football shirts, to sequinned gowns, to hand-knitted children’s clothing. We liked browsing through the rails at Velvet Fruit Vintage, Orange, and Lady Kitschener.  

There’s also lots of shops selling homemade gifts such as soaps, jewellery, stationery and the like. Swifties will want to head straight to Dark Magic Prints (towards the back of the warehouse) where you’ll find cute, fan-made bracelets, badges, tote bags and T-shirts, all inspired by the various eras of the Taylorverse. 

There’s a cafe, R Social, that does an excellent Victoria sponge cake. You could easily spend an hour or so in Red Brick Market so you’ll want a sit-down and a cup of tea at some point. 

Most of the shops are unstaffed which means you can browse without feeling any silent pressure to buy. When you do spot a purchase, you pay at the front and they mark it down in a book. Pick up a supermarket basket as you go in – you’ll fill it in no time.