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In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach.

Here we have a glimpse of the church tower between the houses of Market Street in the old heart of the waterside town. Note the gutter in the centre of the narrow roadway.

Later, when the market charter was granted, King John gave permission for an annual fair which is still held here during the week following Trinity Sunday.

The railway from Heacham to Wells was a lifeline for the export of local grain, vegetables, bricks and shellfish for metropolitan markets.

Designed in the Jacobean style by the Manchester firm of Hindle & Davenport, the Town Hall was built in 1901 to replace an earlier one situated in the Market Place.

In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach.

The Conduit was moved to its present location after the dissolution of the religious house and used as a market building. It has since served as a police station, reading room and bank.

The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented

The town's Market Place is predominantly Victorian and is the second 'centre' of the lovely old town—the High Street is the first.

Here the cottages at Turkey (the Quay) are seen from the former fish market. The current lock gates, erected in 1913, held back water for unloading ships at low tide.

This view of Long Eaton's Market Place is a real snapshot in time.

The livestock market was originally held in the High Street on Tuesdays, before being moved to North Street in 1865; thirty years later it moved again to this site in Woodbridge Road.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the left of the Square, next to the mid-19th-century Market Hall.

It is sited where the market cross once stood. The lane behind the memorial leads to Sawston Hall.

Shops and private houses of all dates surround the large Market Square.

Market Street c1955 Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed

The village is set solidly in the heart of market gardening country, and Stotfold's name is a carry forward of the Old English title for a pigpen.

Its quaint and gracious market-place hosts some Royal Mail and GPO vans, plus a selection of post-war cars.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather's Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

Tenbury lies at the centre of a countryside rich in small farms, orchards and market gardens. Tenbury Wells is known even now as the 'town in the orchard'.

The shops on the south side of the Market Place included (on the left) the tiny Caxton Bookshop. Brent and Collins expanded into the next two shops and offered the latest young men's fashions.

Originally called the Vegetable Market, this was built in 1855 by R G Gould.

Dr Johnson's statue in the Market Square was erected in 1838, and has bas-reliefs relating to scenes from his life on the pedestal. He was born in Breadmarket Street, where his father ran a bookshop.

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