Welcome to the
East End Markets Web Site!
Here you can learn about the history of the old East End
Markets from their establishment to closure, view
some photos of the market
identities and the Chartres (my) family, and finally view photos of the new
Adelaide Produce Market at Pooraka.
In South Australia Revisited, South Australia author Colin Thiele
wrote of the East End Markets:-
"Nothing suggests the
fruitfulness of the earth more wonderfully than an agricultural market.
The rich medley of sights, sounds and smells send the senses reeling: potatoes
heaped prodigally like a million dumplings, melons bigger than cannon balls,
carrots like glowing marlin spikes, freshly decapitated cabbage heads, cucumbers
as thick as forearms, onions in long red netting sacks like lumpy legs in
fishnet stockings. Everywhere there are trucks and barrows and trolleys
trundling energetically among buyers, and growers who look as if they themselves
have sprung from the soil. And above all else is the smell - cloying and
all-pervasive - of fruits and plants and berries, and splashes of colour in red
and orange and green and yellow, as if Earth's cornucopia has suddenly opened
and rained its produce on humanity."
These words so well describe my
feelings of the East End Markets that I felt compelled to share these feelings
with everyone.
This site 
and is best viewed in Internet Explorer v 6.0 or higher.
Created 08 August 2000 and last up
dated Monday, 12th May 2008 08:41:20 AM
I Welcome your Comments
Do you have any favourite memories or
photos of Adelaide's Markets?
Please tell me about them!
e-mail any comments to Bill Chartres
chartres@chariot.net.au
