Golden Rock Shandy is a

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Background

This weekly shandy was established in 1926 during the British regime to supply household essentials to residents of the colony who were mostly employees of railways and their families, living far away from the heart of

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city. Though being a

farmers' market A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or o ...

, it initially supplied vegetables only, as the population of colony grew it also started supplying all kinds of

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and wet goods including

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s, pots,

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, furnitures,

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and electronic gadgets and miscellaneous items.

Schedule

Initially, the market would be bustling every

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and on Sundays from dawn to dusk because the railway employees were paid salaries in cash twice in a month. When the fortnight payment system was scrapped and salaries were given in cash the 3rd day of each month, the market was conducted only on those days, abandoning the biweekly schedule. For the past few years, the market has been open only on Sundays, as the employees' salaries were credited directly into bank accounts.

Legacy

The market square is visited by about 30,000 people from various parts of the district including BHEL Township, OFT, K. K. Nagar, Ponmalaipatti,

Ariyamangalam Ariyamangalam ( ta, ௮ரியமங்கலம்) is one of the four zones of the Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation. One of SIDCO's two Tiruchirappalli-based industrial estate An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trad ...

, Kattur, Melakalkandarkottai, Kilakalkandarkottai and Kottapattu.

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{{Tiruchirappalli , state=collapsed Economy of Tiruchirappalli Wholesale markets in India 1926 establishments in India

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Legacy

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