The secret flea market
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Updated: November 03, 2009 3:59 PM
From purses and CDs to clothes and lava lamps, a little-known “gem” of a flea market has been running in North Surrey for 25 years.
Every Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bridgeview Community Hall (11475 126A St.) becomes a bustling commercial centre, with 80 or more vendors hawking wares of all sorts, both inside and outside of the building.
There’s an endless variety of stuff: table after table of toys and stuffed animals, scented candles, food, videos, books, dishes and miscellaneous doodads.
When a visitor comments that he’s never heard of a flea market there, manager Lorraine Fuller says she’s not surprised.
“I’ve had a lot of people tell me they didn’t know we were here and they live in the Bridgeview area. They knew there was a community centre, but they didn’t know there was a flea market in it.”
Proceeds from the flea market – there’s a $14/15 table cost and a $1 entry fee – go back to the community centre, which runs a youth room (with Internet and a pool table), weekly AA meetings, floor hockey and line dancing, as well as monthly Divercity Kitchen and Food Safe programs and seasonal holiday events for Christmas, Easter, Diwali, the Chinese New Year and Bridgeview Day.
The centre is run by the Bridgeview Community Association.
For more information, call 604-580-8444 or 604-625-3208.
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