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It is a 1920s delight, and reminiscent of a market cross in miniature.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

In the 1880s and 90s, new printing technology released onto the market a wide range of cheap and tacky weekly magazines and comics.This old newspaper woman stands her ground under the spinning wheels

The company established a reputation for being up-market, and there was many a middle-class housewife who would have killed just to be seen doing her shopping there.

Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.

The 12th-century tower and spire of St Mary's Church viewed from the Market Place, a symbol of the mediaeval prosperity brought to this little town from wool-trading.

During the 18th century Dr Samuel Johnson's father ran a bookstall here on market days.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place. It was rebuilt all of a piece after a devastating fire in 1708.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place. It was rebuilt all of a piece after a devastating fire in 1708.

The area from the Duke of Wellington statue to Market Street was once a large ornamental pond complete with fountains, which had delighted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their visit in 1840.

Wetherby was famed for its ancient Thursday market and fair, sanctioned by the Knights Templar. The town hall was built in 1845.

This photograph was taken about half-way along Market Street; it shows many shop premises, most of which have changed hands several times in the intervening years.

This photograph was taken about half-way along Market Street; it shows many shop premises, most of which have changed hands several times in the intervening years.

Fishermen regularly brought their creels of pilchards and herring from the creek (Paignton Harbour - see photograph right and P2046, page 24), along the sand bar (Sands Road - see 81150, page 27), to a market

The Channel, the main access to the Market Place before the formation of King Street, is in the centre, continuing up towards the top left as Frenchgate, past St Mary's parish church.

In the 18th century, Barnard Castle was an important market town and woollen textile centre.

As the county and assize town of Kent, as well as its chief agricultural centre, Maidstone is also a busy market and shopping centre, and many of its older buildings are overshadowed by the commercial

The figures on top of the Market Hall were removed for five years when sewerage work was being undertaken nearby, but they were returned after cleaning and repair in December 1986.

Roman coins have been found in the churchyard, and a market charter was granted by Henry III in 1227.

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

Malton stands at the junction of roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

This open space at the junction of the roads leading to Hitchin, Wheathampstead and London was large enough to support the open-air market, which stretched the 100 yards through the middle of the picture

In fact, there was a disastrous fire in the heart of Market Drayton that took place in 1651, and so despite its appearance the building must be later.

Built in 1575 by Thomas Seckford, Elizabeth I's Master of the Rolls, Woodbridge's Shire Hall stands on an island in the middle of Market Hill.