St Nicholas Market in Bristol is a wonderful place to visit. It’s full of craft, antique, jewellery, vintage and fashion clothing… all sorts of things including a shop which sells nothing but chilli products. Needless to say I had to buy some hot stuff, Marie Sharp’s green habanero pepper sauce…Just outside the main hall there is an area full of little stalls mostly selling delicious and yummy and very tempting food from everywhere you could imagine. I had a pulled pork roll with jalapeños, coleslaw and hickory sauce… I was tempted by a wonderful selection of curries, but the pulled pork won.
It was built between 1741 and 1743 by John Wood the elder; just outside there is an area which also has a market called the Nails market; it doesn’t sell nails but there are four brass pillars set into the ground upon which traders used to exchange money for goods, which led to the saying ‘paying on the nail’. This is a very ancient place, the first ‘nail’ dates from the time Elizabeth I was on the throne, the others are all dated, 1630, 1625 and 1631..
Mmmmm!
Lois Elsden 
St Nicholas Market is one of my favourite areas in Bristol.
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Always something new, always something different! There is a good stall which sells old photographs, and yesterday we found one we hadn’t already got of our village! Dated to the 1920’s I guess
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We were in Bristol last weekend. I’ve been busy on Trip Advisor:-)
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Have you ever stayed in Brooke Guesthouse?
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No, sorry. Where is it?
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It’s near St Nicks, I’m staying over in Bristol after a gig in March and wondered what it was like – the concert is at the Colston Hall and some friends and I want to make a night of it!
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I don’t know it. For one night with friends it won’t matter that much. These days we do nothing less than 4* 😃
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