Market in Honey Lane
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Market in Honey Lane was an ATV television soap opera which was broadcast between 1967 and March 1969.
This cockney drama set was in an East London street market and the covered the traders and customers. It was created by Louis Marks. Initially show weekly in September 1968 it became a twice weekly afternoon show and the name was shortened to just Honey Lane.
Main characters were played by John Bennett, Michael Golden, Ray Lonnen, Peter Birrel, Brian Rawlinson, Pat Nye and Anna Wing, the latter finding new fame in the BBC soap EastEnders nearly 20 years later and which had a similar premise. The set of Honey Lane would later became Albert Square, the actual setting of EastEnders. Ray Lonnen would go on to star in another ATV soap, Crossroads, but in the Carlton Television produced Crossroads of 2001.
