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A decade after the Peel Institute was completed, the adjacent Market Hall was opened as the focus of the town's trade.

We are looking down on the Pot Market, where pots and pans were once bought and sold, and along Queen Street, the main shopping street of this small town on the White Peak plateau.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

Livestock was still being bought and sold in the Market Place, on the centre left of the picture, until only a few years before this picture was taken.

This view of the main street of Hawes looks towards the Market Place, where cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the cobbles.

Stow's ancient cross in the Square served as a reminder to market traders in medieval times that they should not try to pull the wool over their customers' eyes.

This photograph shows a corner of the Market Place to the right of the cinema.

The market town is reached over a toll bridge built by Lord Abingdon in 1769.

Perhaps Richmond's most handsome and unchanged cobbled street, Newbiggin means 'new settlement'; its level width suggests that it was planned as the town's original market place.

This celebrated market town has one of the most magnificent abbey churches in England; the abbey was founded over 900 years ago by Benedict of Auxerre.

This photograph was taken from the Queen's Hotel and looking across Piccadilly towards Market Street, where we can see Lewis's Department Store.

The Market Place and Cross, now partly pedestrianised, is situated just off the mile-long High Street.

This village lies just to the north of Market Weighton. Up the bank on the right is the parish church, and the road also leads to the Old Hall.

Far right is the base of the market cross.

It is only a few miles from Market Rasen on the way to Grimsby, and is well worth a visit.

This small market town was named after a Danish leader called Herolveston. Harleston has retained its character, and has a good number of varied old buildings.

We can glimpse the Market Hall a little beyond it. The shop fronts and buildings on the left are similar to today, but the one major difference is the huge increase in traffic on this road.

It is only a few miles from Market Rasen on the way to Grimsby, and is well worth a visit.

Close to the Wiltshire border, this little market and wool town has retained many of its 17th- and 18th- century buildings, such as the Eight Bells Inn, seen here on the right.

The original Charter for this busy market was given around 1250 at the time the town became a borough.

The old cattle market occupied part of the former bailey of the castle, until 1960 when it moved out to make way for a car park.

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century.