Gone is the old market, open twice a week only, but occupying a valuable trading space. A new, slimline version of the market, clean and bright and open every day, is proving popular with shoppers.
In Carmarthen, the old co-exists easily alongside the new. There are good antique shops in the town and a second hand book shop, if you like rare books and out-of-print editions. There is a council run art gallery and a shop where love spoons, jewelley, silk painted scarves, pottery and paintings give people looking for something individual the chance to browse.
For more than sixty years the Will Davy Rees family has traded in the town, supplying butter, eggs and bacon. Close to the new market, an enterprising fishmonger has a license to serve drinks and fishy delicacies to customers.
Once a week there is a 'street market', with plants and herbs for sale and stalls with jams and chutneys. Locally reared meat and sausages are available, also.
The town is not short of good places to eat, either. The 'Waverley' restaurant offers vegetarian food of a high standard and the 'Ivy Bush' a more substantial meal.
Welsh can be heard everywhere in the town. Before the new development, Welsh language programmes debated whether the ethos of the town would be destroyed with the closure of the market, as though the language would die without the market. I am glad to say, the language is robust as ever.
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