Anything you want, you can get it.
We have people from all cultural background.
We have Africans. We have Jamaican.
We have persons from all over.
Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Caribbean,
you know, everywhere. You get it here.
You can choose whatever you like.
Literally everything. If you want a rug,
if you want curtains, if you want food,
if you want fashion...
Anything you can actually think about,
we've got it here.
I work in Edmonton Green Shopping Centre.
I have been working in this street market,
it's coming to one year this month.
I'm a proud trader
in the Edmonton Green Shopping Centre.
I been working here almost a year now.
I've been working north Edmonton Market
for about 18, 20 years.
It's a beautiful market.
It's a community. It's a friendly one.
Young people, fun people, elderly people.
My name is Ameya John-Lewis.
I sell African prints, lace,
and I'm a tailor. I combine everything together.
The name of my shop is
Ameya World Professional Style.
It's called Ameya World because it's my world.
Why I choose that name? I don't know.
It's my godfather that chooses the name for me
because it's my real native name.
My birth name.
I started making clothes when I was young
because I grew up seeing my mummy sewing
and every day I said,
"One day, I'm going to be sewing."
So, when I grew up
I just fell in love with it straight away.
Because I love to do something,
I would like to be creative.
More or less, I have self-taught passion.
I have passion for what I do.
I'm from Nigeria.
Nigerian culture is very beautiful.
We are very colourful
in terms of our party and dressing up.
When I design for someone,
I sew for customer and they like it.
They come back and give me the review.
They're: "Ooh, Ameya, thank you."
Ameya is a lovely woman.
Very focused, hard working, consistent.
The first time I met her she was so approachable.
Very good customer service.
The outfit is very well-fitted.
Excellent.
On point.
She took her time. Did a very beautiful job.
When I wake up in the morning,
I know I have a place to go to.
I will jump out of my bed, I will run
like as if I'm going to get a job in the office.
Even if I'm sick, I'm always there.
I worked from home before.
When I said I'm going to move my shop
to Edmonton Green Shopping Mall,
my family was scared. I said, "I will do it."
And by God's grace, I started doing it
and the moment everybody is telling me
I can't do it, I keep doing it more.
So that is exactly what put me
to where I am today.
My name is Marcia. I am a hairdresser.
I have a passion for hair.
When I decided to do this
it was like... I like to create stuff
and I like to make people happy.
I like to see a smile on people's face,
so I know when I was quite younger,
I used to just play around doing hair just for fun
and people were really amazed.
Then I said maybe I could just
use this as a profession
and it started from there.
My shop is called Marcia's Salon
Just for people to recognise it's Marcia.
I was going to use Fabulous Hair, but no,
but no, Marcia.
People would know exactly where we at.
The energy here, some people come in
and said, "Oh, you're always having a party!"
So that made me have that vibey energy.
Me and my client,
we talk about practically everything,
like relationship, our lifestyle, men.
Practically every week there's drama.
Drama being fun, laughter.
Somebody coming in
with something that just like,
you just have to just laugh.
You have to just shake your head and laugh.
Every day is laughter in my salon.
My name is Christine Oculi.
Our shop is called Tony's Quality Butchers
because the meat is fresh.
Tony is an honour. He's my son.
We name the shop Tony's Quality Butchers
because Tony had a butcher in Brixton,
so we thought it best to keep the same name.
Tony is a very nice son.
Very polite, very hard working.
James, my husband,
he's the best husband anybody can ever wish for.
I wanted to become a market trader
because I wanted to provide for the whole community.
The food that people buy from the shop
connects them to their country, to their home.
Because when they come to buy they will say,
"Oh, this is here also. We got this in our country."
Sometimes we're playing music and then, you know,
they are dancing and then we also, you know,
join in and dance with them.
We crack jokes. We laugh.
Somebody might come not very happy,
but by the time they leave the shop, we talk to them,
and they go home laughing.
My name is Rackel Ewan-Boulyn.
We sell a variety of stuff.
African-Caribbean stuff.
Things from, basically, all over the world.
We have sugar cane, sometimes watermelons,
all type of fruits,
yellow yam from Jamaica, sweet potato.
We have Uganda sweet potato, the puna yam,
and we have things connected to a lot of countries,
a lot of cultures.
The food we sell
gives people a feeling of being home.
When they're cooking their food,
it reminds them that, basically,
they're getting a part of their culture.
Bertha is my mum.
-She's my auntie. -She's my mum.
She's very determined and hard-working.
When I think about my mum
is that she's a wonderful person.
She is always kind and helpful
even when somebody is sad, she always cheers people up.
She's a good team leader,
she's also like a great, great mum to me as well.
This job is not easy.
Being on your toes all day,
you have to keep moving about,
always getting things to stock up.
But in my case, it's not hard
because I have help.
The workers and the customers,
they are the best.
When they come
and they will tell you a story
or they will run a joke about something
or they just make your day.
The way they talk to you is like,
some of the times they don't want to leave.
My name is Fatou Inniss.
I've been working here for one year now.
Dalston is a place you can get a lot of things.
Mostly stuff from back home, Africa, and Caribbean.
If you want something from back home,
you can find what you need.
I'm selling African products,
there're a few from Dubai, and Caribbean food as well.
I got palm oil from back home.
Awuchere, chagre.
My customer come and buy their own country fruit.
You can see them, their face.
they're so happy when they're buying it.
When they come, they're always happy.
Yes, please. Yes, please.
Being a female trader in the market,
there are a few of us here.
Mostly men, but it makes us special.
For me, I think I can be equal as a man.
I look at equality, person that can do the job,
so there's no difference
in a man or a woman being a head of anything,
a company or business.
Can do it as a woman as well as equal as a man.
Sometimes, people look down at you
because it's like it's not your role.
Well, at the beginning it was not easy.
I have to get up every morning and go work.
I'm hard worker.
I don't like to depend with anyone.
I don't want to wait for somebody
to come and put food on my table
or to come and put money in my hand.
I've been told I'm arrogant.
I've been told, "You think you're all that."
And I've been told, "You're a woman."
But, to me,
if you're strong at something
and you like it and you wanna do it,
I believe that you should go for it,
whether you're man or woman.
I love my job.
The vibe of the people, the music, the shouting.
Chocho, christophene.
You put in a soup.
You cook it done with saltfish.
People are friendly.
Even though we don't know each other that much,
but when you pass each other we just say hello.
Doesn't matter what colour you are,
English, Black.
-Get characters in Dalston. -Innit.
You put it in your mouth and your wiggly it around.
There's some things that you only see in Dalston.
D'you know what I mean?
It's really loving here.
We have lovely people, different character,
and different background.
I just love seeing people you know, walking around,
talking, different languages.
The Indian men, they can speak everything.
Jamaican, they have little African accents, everything.
It's Dalston, it's multi-cultured.
Like you might hear the Indian man
telling you "wagwan", so…
I was born in Lagos, Nigeria.
I am from Jamaica.
I'm from Gambia.
Growing up in Jamaica is awesome.
It's like the best place to be.
The food,
the vibes of the people, the parties.
A lot of the market reminds me of Jamaica.
The clothes stalls, the food stalls,
the shouting of the products that we are selling,
the music.
I think that the ingredients people buy from our shop
connects them to their country.
It gives people a sense of home.
Dalston always reminds me of Ghana.
Everything around here in the market
reminds me of home, Nigeria.
-Uganda. -Jamaica.
-Gambia. -West Africa.
And the people themselves, they remind me of home.