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This is Thursday, market day in Stowmarket. Stearn Brothers (straight ahead) had been a chemist's since the 1820s.

Early closing day gives a peaceful air to this normally busy market town, built around a six-acre lake known as Diss Mere: local tradition says that it is bottomless.

Here we have the old Market Square, renamed Cathedral Square in 1963.

Looking back down towards the market square in the distance, this view shows the old High Street prior to the 1980s modernisation.

Rogerson Hall was always regarded as being more 'up-market' than the rest.

This view looks from Market Square down Friargate.

No 57 Market Place was occupied by Lennard's shoe shop from 1939 (left), and before that was used by Mrs Swaffield as a tobacconists and hairdressers.

The delightful little market shelter in the foreground dates from the 16th century.

He also contributed to the fund that enabled the castle grounds to be converted from a cattle market to public gardens.

Mere Street funnels its way, tight as a shirt collar, to the market place.

This old market cross, with its restored lantern head, must have witnessed centuries of Stow's history.

A Blackpool-bound tram pulls into the Market Square.

The classic market-town juxtaposition of church and grammar school create an ideal composition.

The Market Place contains an interesting architectural mixture of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings. St Mary's Church has a fine knapped-flint chancel.

The monument in Market Square is inscribed: 'In memory of Henry John Lucas M D. Born July 3rd 1804 Died December 29th 1873'.

Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

Fore Street boasts many excellent examples of Georgian and Victorian architecture, with a Shambles and market arcade rebuilt in 1796.

Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

A busy scene looking towards the Market Place. The pavement on the right was the pitch for women flower-sellers on Wednesdays and Saturdays, creating a splash of colour.

The market hall was built in 1888 at a cost of £6,000; it lasted less than 100 years, being demolished in 1986.

The tramlines moved heavy goods between the Market Place shop of ironmonger Robert Spence and his warehouses in Friars Wynd.

The imposing yet uncluttered classical façade of the Angel Hotel dominates the eastern side of the market.

Designed by Henry Collings in 1926 and faced in brick and stone, the Clock Tower overshadows Memorial Square and the market place.

This quiet empty street pictured here contrasts with the bustle of today's pedestrianised area, which is often occupied by a busy market.