Campfield Market Hall

GRUB has brought Campfield’s market-hall roots firmly back to life with Campfield Market, a free weekly market taking place every Saturday in one of Manchester’s most distinctive historic buildings. You’ll find independent traders – bakers, distillers, crafters, florists, makers and more – alongside street food, drinks, buskers, creative workshops, kids’ activities and other public-facing events. Following the building’s reopening to the public in 2025, the market now plays a vibrant part in Campfield’s new life as Manchester’s creative and tech heart.

Campfield itself is a breath-taking Grade II listed complex, arranged around two splendid Victorian market halls – a site steeped in trade, fairs and civic display. Once bustling with produce, later hosting exhibitions and wartime functions before becoming the Air & Space Museum. Now, having undergone years of transformative and restorative work, the complex has reopened as a next-generation campus for Manchester’s creative and tech industries.

Operated by Department, the campus offers flexible co-working zones, private offices, workshops, media-production studios and meeting spaces – all lit by soaring glass roofs that flood the interiors with daylight. Its centrepiece, Campfield House, houses a stylish café, mezzanine bar and event venues designed for screenings, talks, launches and gatherings under that iconic vaulted canopy. The adjacent Campfield Studios offers adaptable studios and a dramatic central atrium perfect for shoots, exhibitions or immersive events.

More than bricks and beams, Campfield is plugged into Exchange, Manchester’s flagship accelerator programme, supporting over 200 creative-tech businesses. By day it buzzes with entrepreneurs and digital makers; on weekends, its heritage spaces shift back toward their market‑hall past, hosting a regular programme of vibrant, community-focused events featuring independent traders, street food, music and creative workshops – bringing fresh energy to the building.

Campfield is open weekdays for workspaces, café, events and accelerator activity – plus craft markets, food stalls and public gatherings on weekends. For a venue that threads together Manchester’s industrial history, post‑war reinvention and creative‑tech future, this is the place to watch.