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In the Saturday Market is a market cross built in 1714.

Looking along Market Street towards Market Square, at the far end we can see the old Town Hall.

The imposing figure of Lord Palmerston surveys Romsey's Market Place.

Middleham was the former capital of Wensleydale and a market town. As well as the weekly market there were annual fairs, and the close proximity of two abbeys must also have stimulated trade.

A weekly Friday market was held on this site for well over a century. A feast and fairground also took place between here and the canal side.

Besides being a market centre and wool town, Fairford was on an important coaching route in the days of horse-drawn travel, as it straddled the road from London to the south-west.

Although not a market day, there is still plenty of activity along the road.

Situated at the foot of the South Downs, where the River Stor flows north-west to its confluence with the Arun, Storrington is the only downland settlement that became a small market town.

The dominant building in this photograph was first a Victorian covered market, claiming to be the largest undercover market in Britain at the time.

It is surprising that there were not more accidents in the days when the main road passed through the middle of the Market Place.

On market day the whole square was full of activity and people came into Nottingham from all the surrounding villages.

As we look east from near London Road, we can see the layout of the wide 13th-century market place.

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

The market town of Baldock developed at the junction of a Roman road and the ancient Icknield Way in the mid 1100s.

In the background (centre) is the Market House, erected in 1836, which was converted to the post office in 1923 by building between and behind its open colonnade.

An old picture of the original square and centre of the town known as the Diamond, which was the original market place of Monaghan.

The Central Bus Terminus was completed at this date, and so were the new 'umbrella' markets behind the Market Hall.

This admirable market town, with its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, was once hailed as 'the Montpellier of England'. Five roads meet at the market square.

In addition, a fish market offered sixteen choice counters. Shoppers could purchase all their weekly goods here, from hardware to the freshest vegetables.

Here the Market Place has a fair number of local people and tradesmen curiously watching the cameraman's antics in the middle of the street.

Another view of Kirkby's Market Place taken nearly 20 years after photograph No 59539, and showing few changes apart from the motor vehicles; these include the charabanc which plied between Lancaster

In the past it had regular cattle markets and cheese markets, a mill, tanneries and a brewery, but these have now all gone.

Sandbach's Square is the scene, each May, of an Elizabethan market held to commemorate the original market charter presented to the town in the 1500s.

The name 'Chipping' is derived from an old English word meaning 'market', and a market continues to be held here every Wednesday.