We paid a final visit to Manchester's Church Street Markets ahead of their closure

“End of era” is a phrase I heard more than once when I went to pay my last ever visit to the Church Street markets in the Northern Quarter.

The remaining stalls are preparing to close for good this weekend as the adjoining building on High Street prepares for redevelopment.

McCall’s Organic food shop, Afro Asian Caribbean and Manchester Book Buyers are the last holdouts of a once thriving market community and will be sorely missed by customers. McCall’s has called Church Street its home for more than 20 years, and the book stall even longer at 54 years.