Join us for the first two weekends of December at the market. The market will be closed for two Sundays before Christmas- please support your local Camberwell Junction traders during this busy shopping season. Camberwell Sunday Market will be:
• Open 1 Dec 2024 • Open 8 Dec 2024 Christmas Fun Day • Closed 15 Dec 2024 • Closed 22 Dec 2024 • Open 29 Dec 2024 • Open 5 Jan 2025
Casual stall booking are now open with hundreds of sites available in 2025. Book online or download the App at:
Every Sunday morning, this suburban car park is transformed into a vibrant, sprawling hotbed for lovers of trash and treasure.
From records to rings, buttons to boots, as long as it’s secondhand, antique or vintage, it’s sold here at the Camberwell Sunday Market.
Entrepreneur Poppy King, best known for her booming lipstick business in the 1990s, said that her heart would “literally skip a beat” as she approached the Camberwell Sunday Market and contemplated the array of potential purchases ripe for the picking.
The market is a beloved ritual for so many. From the stallholders who have been crawling out of bed in the wee hours of every Sunday morning for decades, to the dedicated shoppers who scour the hundreds of stalls driven by the thrill of finding that elusive item.
The market community here is a close-knit one, and many lasting connections have been formed over the years; between the Rotarians, stallholders and regular patrons.
In 2001, two stallholders who had met at the market were married … at the market! The regular vendors – one who sold home-made bow ties, the other irreverent homemade merchandise – invited a host of Rotarians and market-goers to share the occasion with them. People love the market for many reasons, including the many buskers who have graced the car park’s various “stages”.
Since its inception, the Rotary Club of Balwyn has supported many buskers and performers who use the market as their stage, to entertain visitors as they browse the market stalls.
Saxophonist Neil Whitford performed at the Camberwell Sunday Market for more than 20 years, and his contribution is fittingly commemorated by the memorial plaque on this walkway. The plaque depicts Neil playing the saxophone with his little grey poodle, Benjamin by his side. Together this duo entertained the crowds in the rain, hail and shine.
There’s a new local in town: Camberwell Blood Donor Centre
For years, Lifeblood has been visiting Camberwell. They’ve been popping up every few months so we can give blood and save lives.
And we’ve been doing exactly that. In fact, Camberwell locals have been making so many donations that Lifeblood have decided to stick around.
Yep. A permanent Camberwell Donor Centre is coming 19 November. The team will also have a stall at the Sunday Market on 10 November 2024.
Did you know that 1 in 3 people will need blood in their lifetime? That’s 1 in 3 people catching a flick at the Rivoli. 1 in 3 people wandering the Sunday market. 1 in 3 people on the 75 tram.
And you can be the one who makes a difference to them when it matters most.
Lock in your next donation to be one of the first to scope out the best spot in Camberwell Donor Centre (and, more importantly: the best snacks).
The suburb of Camberwell in Victoria boasts a rich history and interesting heritage – it played a key part in the expansion of Melbourne’s railway network and was also named after a pub.
Originally the lands of the Wurundjeri people, in 1837 the first Europeans staked land claims in the area and by 1853 all the land was sold.
Few suburbs can boast being named after a pub, but that’s exactly how Camberwell came to be.
Publican George Eastaway’s fond memory of Camberwell Green in London was the reason he named his new licenced premises Camberwell Inn in 1853.
Camberwell Junction circa 1916-17. Image credit: Charnley, V.E. State Library Victoria.
The area took the name of Camberwell after the corrugated iron pit stop on the road to Gippsland.
The City of Camberwell, which was established in 1914, evolved from the place “where the ground is thickly shaded” – the Woiwurrung translation of Boroondara.
The Boroondara Shire was formed in 1871, and become the City of Camberwell 43 years later.
Camberwell Sunday Market 