Camden Lock Market

This guide to Camden Lock Market in London centers on Eric Reynolds, a boat-builder who took over the lease on a derelict timber yard beside the Regent's Canal in 1974, when barges no longer ran and a motorway threatened to flatten the whole site. You'll hear how he got around the planners' refusal to allow retail shops, and why he sank a barge into the lock itself. The narration also traces the punk and alternative scene that grew up around those first Sunday stalls. Listen with the canal in view — the lock gates are still working machinery, not decoration.