I am ashamed to say that I had never been in the 7th District market at Klauzal ter until yesterday. Built in 1897, it was the third of the original five planned and built in the capital around the same time, including: Hunyadi ter (1897), Rakoczi ter (1897) and Batthyany ter (1902), Hold u. (1897), and the Nagycsarnok (1896) at Fovam ter. The market hall was built on the ashes of the Istvan Square Theater destroyed by fire in 1874. Istvan Square was renamed in 1907 for Klauzál Gábor, a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the first government of Hungary. He was a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1832 and served as one of the leaders of the liberal opposition on the Diet of 1843–44. He retired from the politics in 1844 until the outbreak of the revolution. He opposed the extreme politics which wanted to separate from the Austrian Empire and did not support the complete independence.  {wikipedia} Most of the market hall has now been taken over by a supermarket, with only a couple fruit and vegetable sellers near one entrance. Ben and I went in there because there is an "antique" shop called The Bazar where he thought we might find a stand-up ashtray for outside the shop during events. We did not find what we were looking for, but enjoyed ourselves looking through the collection of tools, memorabilia, windup travel alarms (no batteries!), film projector rolls, cassette Walkmans, etc. The people were extremely friendly, and I am sure I will go back for another rummage.