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Deptford Market 7:20
Time, date and weather: 2 pm, Saturday 14th October 2017. Partly overcast, 19°C, wind 9 mph.
Description: Starting at the junction of New Cross Road and Deptford High Street. Traffic on New Cross road, receding; voices of stallholders and passersby; radio adverts and recorded music (mostly reggae) from successive stalls; two women shoppers talk as they keep pace with the recordist for a short while; airplane drone; noise of a fishmonger's electric saw; rustle of carrier bags; brief chopping sounds; faint squeak and clatter of clothes-hangers on rails; a van moves slowly towards the junction with Douglas Way; a street preacher speaks through a tiny handheld loudspeaker as she walks slowly along; clatter of goods being handled on junk stalls.