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'''Golden Rock Shandy''' is a [[market square]] at [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]].

== Background ==
This weekly shandy was established in 1926 during the [[British raj|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 [[Tiruchi]] city.<ref name=british>{{cite news|last=Deepika Muralidharan|title=Tiruchi's Golden Rock shandy still holds its charm|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/tiruchis-golden-rock-shandy-still-holds-its-charm/article5544226.ece|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=6 January 2014|location=[[Tiruchi]]}}</ref>

Though being a [[farmers' market]], it initially supplied vegetables only, as the population of colony grew it also started supplying all kinds of [[dry goods]] and [[wet market|wet goods]] including [[consumables]], [[metalware]]s, [[Pottery|pots]], [[clothing]], furnitures, [[meat]], [[fish (food)|fish]], [[poultry]], [[livestock]] and [[Consumer electronics|electronic gadgets]] and miscellaneous items.<ref name=british/><ref name=places>{{cite news|title=Well-patronised shandy short of facilities|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/14/stories/2010021459300300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220000406/http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/14/stories/2010021459300300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 February 2010|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=14 February 2010|author=Syed Muthahar Saqaf|author2=M. Balaganessin|location=[[Tiruchi]]}}</ref>

== Schedule ==
Initially, the market would be bustling every [[fortnight]] 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.<ref name=salary>{{cite news|last=R Gokul|title=Golden Rock Sunday market needs a facelift|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-19/madurai/37178841_1_trichy-corporation-ponmalai-market|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824183138/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-19/madurai/37178841_1_trichy-corporation-ponmalai-market|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 August 2013|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=19 February 2013|location=[[Madurai]]}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
The market square is visited by about 30,000 people from various parts of the district including [[Kailasapuram|BHEL Township]], [[OFT Trichy|OFT]], [[K. K. Nagar, Tiruchirappalli|K. K. Nagar]], Ponmalaipatti, [[Ariyamangalam]], Kattur, Melakalkandarkottai, [[Kilakalkandarkottai]] and Kottapattu.<ref name=places/><ref name=salary/>

== See also ==
* [[Gandhi Market]]
* [[Koyambedu Wholesale Market Complex]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
{{Tiruchirappalli |state=collapsed}}
[[Category:Economy of Tiruchirappalli]]
[[Category:Wholesale markets in India]]
[[Category:1926 establishments in India]]

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