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This view is taken from the brick four-centred arch into Market Square. The brick footpath heads towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble.

The long straight high street eventually opens up into the Friday market place.

The obelisk seen in photograph No 33256 had been replaced by the Market Cross before the 1950s, and Broughton's shop was rebuilt in 1904; it is now the Trattoria Sorrento.

The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.

The chimney of a fire brick works stands out in Calstock, and there is evidence of market gardening in the foreground.

Now it is a busy market town, but without the pretensions of grandeur it might have had. This photograph was taken on fair day, when horses are being traded.

With its magnificent 12th-century priory church of St Mary, its market cross and broad cobbled square, it is perennially popular with visitors.

The top end of the main street in Penzance is dominated by the impressive classical frontage of the Market House and Old Town Hall, erected in 1837.

This view looks east from Bridge Street, past the Market House and along into Bell Hill.

The Market Square was probably the site of the quarry for the stone from which its magnificent church of St Peter and St Paul was built.

In this later photograph, there are inevitably more cars parked around the market cross.

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

West of the Market Square the road divides: the left hand road goes to Long Sutton, the right fork heads for Langport.

For the pub to be advertising a 'large car park' at this date suggests that the clientele came from outside the village, and that they were somewhat up-market to be car owners in the '50s.

Once known as Acres Field, it was here for about 500 years that Manchester's weekly markets and annual fairs were held.

Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I, but unlike Hawes and Askrigg, it never became industrialized.

Hodges Garage (in the distance, behind the bus entering Market Square) has since been demolished, and the Castle Hotel (by the street lamp on the right) has also closed.

The columns on the left are on the front of the Market Hall below the old court house. Next door to the Bear Hotel is Kirkland's the chemist's.

The arrival of the railway in 1866 gave this market town a boost, and it rapidly developed to serve a large hinterland.

In the 1870s John Noyes and William Gardener ran an ironmongery business here, and on market days they displayed their wares on the pavement in front of the Town Hall next door.

In the distance the tower and spire of St Andrew's church is visible on the side of the Market Place.

In the foreground is a market where trippers could buy fresh fish off the local boats. On the right is the lifeboat station.

In the foreground is a market where trippers could buy fresh fish off the local boats. On the right is the lifeboat station.

The market on St Mary's Square in the 1960s. The church and cloisters are clearly visible in the background. Moss's warehouse has gone, and the land has become a car park.