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At least one household living upstairs in the Toll Booth has lit a fire. The Bishop Blaize Hotel (right) commemorates the patron saint of wool combers, sore throats and cowherds!

This began in 1961 when Richard Booth opened his first second-hand bookshop. The town's annual Hay Festival is now internationally famous with the literati.

In the days when the Reverend William Downes was rector, and William Wilkinson kept the Leeds Arms, local farmers included Joseph Booth, Jonathan Marshall, Maude Thomas, John Shirt and Thomas Stanland

wooden theatre on the left, near the bathing machines, whilst the fair ground was also near the high water mark with a helter-skelter, roundabouts, a rifle range (right), a photo studio, and lots of other booths

There are refreshments booths, gingerbread sellers, seats to rent by the hour, and donkey rides.

There are refreshments booths, gingerbread sellers, seats to rent by the hour, and donkey rides.

The Blue Bell was kept by F Glossop, who was also a maltster; the landlord at the White Hart was Thomas Booth; and William Clark ran the Three Crowns.

Opposite is the shop of George Booth, bookseller and stationer, who produced the Woodbridge Almanac. The overhanging jetty is supported by two cast iron Doric columns.

The name Bootham derives from Buthum,'at the booths'; this probably related to market stalls that were set up nearby.The medieval statues that can just be seen on the top of the bar are in very

Two interesting residents in the local churchyard are John and Hannah Booth. John was the village fiddler, and he and his wife died within hours of one another on the same day in 1778.

In Belvoir Street in 1949, Cowlings Record Shop was much frequented by Leicester's youth, who could sit in booths and hear the records before deciding whether or not to buy.

On the right, in front of the Toll Booth gable-end, is a weighbridge.

The name Bootham derives from Buthum, 'at the booths'; this probably related to market stalls that were set up nearby.

In this still mainly rural area, names redolent of the country abound: Pewter House Fold, Smalley Fold, Hubbersty Fold (like 'booth', 'fold' means a cowhouse or animal pen).

Opposite was Booths the grocer's, part of a chain of shops, who ran a popular café upstairs.

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

In the centre of the Market Place, a busy intersection even before cars were invented, was the Toll Booth (demolished 1857) and the Boy and Barrel Inn (removed 1898).

The old market booths, which backed on to the churchyard, were later converted into cottages and demolished in the 1940s.

On the right, in front of the Toll Booth gable-end, is a weighbridge.

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

At least one household living upstairs in the Toll Booth has lit a fire. The Bishop Blaize Hotel (right) commemorates the patron saint of wool combers, sore throats and cowherds!

This rather quaint view shows the then 'up to the minute' toll booths of the newly-opened Dartford Tunnel.

Ullenhall has had its share of notorious residents, including a 19th-century forger called William Booth, who was also accused of his brother`s murder.