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Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

The spacious northern end of the High Street, with its central water garden and carefully tended flowerbeds, marks the area where the market hall stood until 1853.

The Carfax 1907 The Carfax and market place is at the heart of the old town.

The Robinsons were major employers in the town, owing the success of their business activities to the burgeoning TV rental market of the post-war years.

Carrickfergus was to share the tumults which the castle brought, but the town we see here was busy and prosperous, with markets twice a week and five linen mills needing workers.

Cobham stands on Watling Street and was once a busy market centre.

The Square, one of the ancient market places of Stamford, appears as a pleasant pedestrian area before the dominance of the motorcar; a convention of delivery boys is taking place around the gaslight.

The Magistrates' Court for Swindon was held here until the Old Town Hall was built in the Market Square in 1852.

We start in the heart of the city in Old Market Square. The 18th-century Exchange was demolished in 1926 and replaced by the present Council House, opened in 1929 by the then Prince of Wales.

By the 1950s the Market Place had become a car park and the statue had gone.

The road from Sawley to Waddington crossed the back road from Clitheroe to Slaidburn here, so the cloth produced from local wool could be taken to the markets and fairs on packhorses.We are looking

Its market was thriving and very active; this photograph was probably taken just before the arrival of the livestock - boys always made their extra pocket money helping the farmers and drovers control

Here the view is out over some of the castle's outer buildings along Castle Street and into the Market Place.

The shoes were made just round the corner in Market Street until the 1930s.

On non-market days, the centre of St Ives was a quiet and unhurried place.

Photographed before its conversion to a one-way system, the High Street appears a quiet market town thoroughfare.

We can also see Newman & Sons piano warehouse on the left, with the Lipton Market, a grocery store, further along.

There is still a bank on the corner, but the market cross of 1790 is now located to the right of the square, after standing in the park opposite between 1968 and 1986.

The first is down Market Street. The Baptist church was built early in the19th century; it was attached to a farmhouse, the tile-hung building to the right.

The well-kept green reminds us of great days when it was a market place for the plait trade. It now has a memorial garden in place of these railings.

Market Street was notorious for traffic congestion even in the 1880s.

The town originally developed because of the local weavers, and also as a market town.

The 4th Earl, known as the building Earl, enlarged Stapleford Hall, the ancestral home, built a bridge at Melton Mowbray, and the Town Hall at Market Harborough.

We can also see Newman & Sons piano warehouse on the left, with the Lipton Market, a grocery store, further along.