For a visitor wandering off Chalk Farm Road into Camden Market, the area in north London feels much the same as it has for the past four decades. It remains a hub of the capital’s alternative fashion and music scenes.
Stalls outside the Stables Market area sell multi-coloured wind chimes, while shoppers nearby browse top hats decorated with goggles, aimed at devotees of the steampunk scene.
Yet closer inspection reveals the effects of a gradual professionalisation of the huge, once-ramshackle collection of markets around Camden Lock, since Israeli entrepreneur Teddy Sagi’s Market Tech bought most of the site in 2014.
