Battersea Sunday Afternoon Car Boot Sale

We walked to Battersea Car Boot Sale after a disappointing experience at Capital Car Boot. When we got there we found that if we waited half an hour we’d be able to get in for just 50p. So we killed some time just down the road in a lovely but expensive Italian café (Caffetino) and had some food and coffee then headed back to check out the boot fair.
Lots of stalls, all pretty full even at 1.30 in the afternoon and mainly very reasonably priced. There were piles to rummage through if you felt like it, or you could head for the neater clothes on rails. As well as clothes there was a good selection of china, jewellery and odd bits and bobs, including a 1975 Star Wars pencil case and a necklace with what looked like a golden prune hanging on it! The best thing to shop for seemed to be mens shoes, there was an amazing selection of beautiful brogues, creepers and leather boots on one stall.
I bought a gorgeous hallmarked silver ring with a stone that looks like moonstone set in it for just £10. It’s rare for me to find rings that fit my tiny fingers so I was super happy.

still run by a load of school teachers and act like a load of school teachers. do this and dont do that. stand in the corner with yopur hands above your head!

I love Battersea Boot. You can buy everything from Scrimshaw, to jewelry, to used clothes, to essential household goods like crock pots. I would go as far as to say that if you are patient enough and shopped here every Sunday, you could feather your nest and clothe yourself entirely from Battersea Boot.
Then, when your place starts to look like more of a boot fair than a home, gather it all up and sell it all back to the punters at Battersea. It costs £10 for a space in the carpark– £3 extra if you want to rent a table too.
The entrance fee for shoppers is a bit more complicated: To enter before noon pay £5 – I would not recommend this because many of the vendors are not set up yet. To enter at noon pay £3 – This is worth it. Most vendors are set up and you get first grabs. If you want to wait until 1:30 you only pay 50p – there’s still a lot of junk left and you can spend the money you save on an ice cream cone or a boot fair breakfast.

I think this is a great place to find a bargain or sell some junk. This place gets really busy so there are plenty of prospective buyers for whatever you have to sell. Vegetables, bags, shoes, clothes, electricals and books are jst some of the things I have noticed any time I have visited and for £10 per car/​table it’s a great place to earn some money on the weekend.

Every Sunday throughout the year in the car park of a technology college in Battersea, traders and buyers flock to get rid of their unwanted items or pick up several bags of bargains. In central London car boot sales are few to none, it is difficult to understand why when you see the huge mass of people queuing up every Sunday lunchtime.
There is a lot of rubbish on sale here as with all car boot sales, surprisingly people will buy almost anything, the cheaper and the tackier the better. For the quality finds, however, get there early and buy quickly.
Some people love car boot sales, some people hate them. If you fall more towards the latter category then do not even bother thinking about going. If however, you find the thought that some unknowing person out there is getting ready to sell their valuable possessions for pittance too hard to resist then head to Battersea Car Boot Sale and see what you can find.