Kensington Market was a three storey indoor market at 49 Kensington High Street, in the Kensington

Kensington

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 area of London

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, England

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In the 1960s and 1970s, it catered to hippie

Hippie

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 and bohemian

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 culture. In the 1980s to end of the 1990s it catered to punks

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, new romantics, metal heads

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, ravers

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, goths

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, trance

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, acid house

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 and various sub-cultures of modern music, fashion, hair stylists, body arts, crafts and accessories, vintage rock 'n' roll wear, fetish rangers.

Before the 1980s around mid-1970s when Queen

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 became successful, Freddie Mercury

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 and Roger Taylor

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 had a stall there.

In early 2000 the market closed down. The building was left derelict following its closure, and was demolished in 2001. A PC World

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now sits at the market's former location.

To date (2011) a remnant still remains behind a partly boarded up glass window, located between the PC World and NatWest Bank. Through the murky glass, a wooden sign on the floor, left behind by builders who worked on the new renovation says: in thanks to all its customers from past glory.