Some random recent comments from local traders and residents:
"Welcome to Beirut"
"We're celebrating our 30th anniversary next month - I wonder if we'll be here next year"
"A lot of traders are very nervous"
"Clay Cross is dying on its feet - we need this development"
"Someone got beaten up outside a pub here the other week, just because they weren't from the Cross"
"The market here used to take up the whole of Quik Save car park - now it's just a few stalls"