The boot fair is at Crystal Palace Coach Park (sorry about that). It is a winter replacement for the St Helier (Sutton) boot fair, which is on grass, not tarmac, and which wet winter weather makes impossible.The St Helier boot fair is a descendant of the Wimbledon Stadium boot fair which ended in in 2017. Apparently London needed apartment buildings. And that boot fair was the descendant of the Merton Abbey Mills boot fair, where London also needed apartment buildings eventually. These were both big and, for me, rewarding boot fairs.Sorry about the genealogy, but it gets more difficult for boot fairs to find suitable places. Wimbledon Stadium was fine for me, but a train trip to Crystal Palace early on a cold morning is somewhat off-putting. A much smaller fair too, so far, but some interesting books*. *Saleable, hopefully. Often interesting, too.On Wednesdays and Saturdays.Website:-https://crystalpalaceboot.co.uk/There are boots on Sundays in Battersea. Nine Elms (Morning) and Dagnall Street (Afternoon). I don't know them really. (Because I have to rein myself in). Perhaps I should, as they are closer than Crystal Palace.Sorry to overdo it, but I do enjoy boot fairs for the hunting. Trying to sell the books later online is generally more of a drag.
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