Steve Brine spent a few hours in town on Sunday 22nd July as he joined the city in celebrating independent shops across Winchester.
The Winchester Independents High Street market saw around 30 businesses make use of a free high street stall, for a 'market' of independents for the day.
Steve Brine MP said: "It was a pleasure to spend time chatting with our independents and to see them out front for once selling quality, mostly local goods.
"This is a brilliant idea and, from what I could gauge, there would be a huge appetite to do this more regularly.
"It's not the whole answer to our retail challenges, and no one is pretending it is, but we could support them a great deal more and I intend to get in the middle of discussions with BiD and WCC about how we do that."
Pictured; Steve and the kids with Miff and his team from Kyoto Kitchen.