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The market, which has been going for about thirty years, runs every
Thursday and Saturday. Jane Kingman-Pauley, 53, of Hereward Street,
Bourne, [pictured above] runs a fruit and vegetable stall with her partner Bill
Pauley, 52. She said: "Everyone is really struggling on the market
and we need people to come out and support their local traders, no
matter what the weather. We work really hard to make sure the market
stocks everything that people might need and there is a wide variety
of stalls for everyone."
Ms Kingman-Pauley, who is also a town councillor, urged more
stallholders to come forward, particularly to stand during the
smaller Saturday market.
Confectionery stallholder, Graham Wilson, 56, of Swineshead, said he
was doing enough trade to "keep the wolves from the door". He said:
"I am surviving because I have got a good group of regular
customers. We need people to come and support us. The more people
who come the better chance we have got."
South Kesteven District Council which runs the market offers stalls
free for charity use and Cynthia Graham, 70, of Rowan Way, Bourne,
uses the service for Bourne Animal Welfare and Bourne Preservation
Society. She also regularly shops at the market. She said: "On the
charity stalls we do very well and people are very generous. There
are not as many people coming down to the market as there used to be
though and I think it started when Sainsburys came. It is an
absolutely lovely
market and I think people should make use of it."
Trevor Glenn, 5O, of Billinghay near Sleaford, started his cheese
stall in Bourne three weeks ago. Mr Glenn said: "We get to five
markets a week and Bourne is the smallest but we did get a lot of
interest in our first week. In general, the people who use the
market are very supportive but more people have got to make use of
markets otherwise they won't survive."
Paul Gibbins, market supervisor for South Kesteven District Council,
said the amount of traders at the market varied every week but at
yesterdays there were twenty stallholders trading. "Everyone is
struggling at the moment but if we don't get the traders we don't
get the customers and vice versa. We just need people to come and
support the markets to keep it a part of the community."
Article by Kerry Coupe reproduced from the
Stamford Mercury, Friday 3rd April 2009 |
