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Building on a retail opportunity: starting with a stall at Barnet Market to opening a delicatessen in The Spires shopping centre

Delihouse might be the smallest shop in The Spires – and only opened in the summer – but proprietor Jonathan Beecham is already expanding a delicatessen business which started with a Saturday stall at Barnet Market.

His deli and coffee shop offers freshly prepared bagels and sandwiches with a choice of fillings and has shelves stocked with a wide range of delicatessen products and baked breads.

Jonathan has been so encouraged by the support of a loyal band of customers that with the approach of winter he is proposing to offer a range of hot soups.

To meet demand for specialist cheeses, charcuterie, fish and fresh bakery, he is also planning to start a Friday delivery service for his range of artisan foods.

From starting with a stall in Barnet Market to opening a shop in The Spires shopping centre-- delicatessen trader's new opportunity.

After building up his experience in deli foods and catering, he took a stall at Barnet Market three years ago and trade was so strong he decided in the summer to take on a small vacant unit in The Spires, directly opposite Waitrose.

“I am so pleased to be welcoming loyal customers who got to know me at the market. Trade has been great.

“I’m definitely the smallest shop in the shopping centre and certainly the smallest deli and coffee shop I know, but customers say Delihouse is just what the Spires needs.”  

Delihouse is open from 9.30am to 4pm every day except Monday and from 8am on Saturday.

Platters of bagels and charcuterie board for parties and business events – and the Delihouse range of products – can be ordered online. See www.delihouseuk.com

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A hotel worthy of historic site

Nearby residents have been given an assurance that the design of the new Premier Inn planned for the historic site of Barnet Market will respect the local conservation area and will be in keeping with terraced houses across the road in Chipping Close.

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Barnet Market’s longest-running stall

Father and son David and Tyler Bone
Father and son David and Tyler Bone

“Pineapples, two for a pound!” – father and son David and Tyler Bone have both been shouting out prices for fruit and vegetables at Barnet Market since before they were ten, and together they are carrying on a tradition that was started by David’s father Albert in the 1950s.

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Market re-opening: just the kind of celebration High Barnet needs

Celebrations along the high streets of Britain have been few and far between in the last few years, so the official re-opening of Barnet Market after its recent make-over was just the kind of fillip local traders have been crying out for.

Hopefully the revival of the market, much strengthened by the attraction of additional stallholders, will give a much-needed boost to the Spires shopping centre and help to stem the run of retail closures.

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New steel frames for the market stalls, topped off with a smart set of awnings, gave the market a fresh look as friends, supporters and stallholders celebrated the first Saturday’s trading on the resurfaced site (9.11.2013).

At last the Friends of Barnet Market had a positive story to tell: after six years’ disruption and uncertainty the market finally had a settled site and an opportunity to rebuild the custom lost since the demolition of what was once Barnet’s cattle market.

Rarely has High Barnet been so united than in its campaign to preserve one of the town’s few remaining living links to its historic past – a market that was originally given its royal charter by King John in the 12th century.

Among those who joined the celebrations to mark the re-opening were the Chipping Barnet MP, Mrs Theresa Villiers, and leading members of the Friends of Barnet Market, the Barnet Society, Barnet Residents Association and other local groups.

Their presence was a chance to say a collective “thank you” to all those who had campaigned so steadfastly on the market’s behalf and who have done all they can to encourage customers to remain loyal to the small band of stallholders who never gave up of returning to their traditional site.

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Barnet’s historic charter market back in its traditional setting

The market previously – now reopen

After a seven-week absence Barnet Market is about to return to its original site which has now been resurfaced and smartened up after a £100,000 improvement scheme.

Traders hope the first Saturday market – on 9 November – on what in years gone by was Barnet’s cattle market is the end of six years’ disruption.

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“Terrific victory” for Friends of Barnet Market

Rarely has the presence of a mechanical digger been welcomed with such enthusiasm as greeted its arrival on the site of Barnet Market, heralding the start of a long-promised and much-delayed resurfacing and improvement.

Seeing contractors working on the site after so much disappointment in the past was in itself a “terrific victory”, says Chris Smith of the Friends of Barnet Market, who has campaigned so energetically on behalf of both stallholders and shoppers.

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Temporary home for Barnet Market

While work is underway resurfacing Barnet Market, its temporary home is the area around the bandstand outside Waitrose supermarket at the Spires shopping centre.

Shoppers visiting the market on Saturday morning (21.9.2013) were handed leaflets announcing that at last the William Pears property group is to start its £100,000 upgrade of the site.

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At Last! Barnet Market improvements

While work is under way resurfacing Barnet Market its temporary home will be the area around the bandstand outside the Waitrose supermarket at the Spires shopping centre.

hoppers visiting the market on Saturday morning (21.9.2013) were handed leaflets announcing that at last the William Pears property group is to start its £100,000 upgrade of the site.

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