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A private, driver-led tour of London's real independent markets.
A private tour for your group only, with a dedicated private driver — real Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Portobello, and Borough Markets.
This is a private tour for your group only, with a dedicated private driver. Real markets covered include Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Portobello Road, and Borough Market.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup anywhere in central London.
A consistently praised private markets tour.
Genuine, comprehensive market coverage in one day.
Real, exclusive transport for your group only.
Genuine, unhurried market exploration.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, with a dedicated private driver — real Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Portobello, and Borough Markets. This is a private tour for your group only, with a dedicated private driver. Real markets covered include Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Portobello Road, and Borough Market.
Spitalfields has had some form of market on its site since the 13th century, taking its name from the medieval hospital and priory of St Mary Spital, founded in 1197. The market only got formal legal standing in the 1680s, when Charles II granted a license to a silk thrower named John Balch to sell "flesh, fowl and roots" there.
The area's identity shifted again when French Huguenot weavers, fleeing religious persecution, settled around Spitalfields and turned "Spitalfields silk" into a genuinely sought-after commodity worldwide. In 1876, Robert Horner bought the market's lease and had the central square roofed in glass, with the new buildings completed in 1893 at a cost of £80,000 — the structure that still frames the market today.
Borough Market, the fourth stop, claims an even longer pedigree: trading is recorded on its site from at least 1014, and the market's own history notes it was likely active even earlier than that. Parliament actually shut it down in 1755 over traffic congestion, but local residents raised £6,000 to buy a small plot and reopen it nearby — the buildings standing today date to the 1850s.
By contrast, Portobello Road is the newcomer of the four, with its market only forming by around 1870 — and it spent its first several decades as a plain fresh-food and flea market, not the antiques destination it's known as today.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
