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Most of the architecture is Victorian, including the fine Market Hall in the middle distance, slightly left of centre. The central church has gone, to be replaced by a store.

retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales market

Nowadays, the hotel faces a host of modern competitors in the city's luxury accommodation market.

The Town Hall, also built as a corn market, was opened by the Duke of Wellington in 1833; a 173 feet obelisk monument to the Duke is on Wellington Hill to the south of the town.

The market hall also serves as a convenient road sign, indicating Grimsby to the left and Skegness to the right.

through the expansive square, planned by Inigo Jones.The scene has been described by a contemporary guidebook: ‘All night long the rumble of heavy wagons seldom ceases, and before daylight the market is

It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

Around a hundred years before this picture was taken, the cobblestones of Newark Market Place would have echoed to the clatter of stagecoaches and carriers' waggons.

Market Street is now pedestrianised. The Lloyds Bank building on the right has been renovated, though the exterior is similar. The Crown to the right of it is now a building society.

South of the church, and facing the market place, is Jesus Hospital which was founded in 1591 for 26 poor men.

Known at the time of Domesday as Ferlingeham, it was once a significant market centre, and in later centuries had important paper mills.

The Market was newly-opened in the year of this photograph. It was designed by the local firm Leeming and Leeming of Northgate, with a lofty roof supported by richly-decorated ironwork.

The photographer is looking south-west across the pretty market town of Wendover, which lies on the edge of the Chilterns.

Today this area is pedestrianised, and on the far right is the entrance to Eastgate Market.

Almost equidistant from Gloucester and Bristol, situated on the southern side of the Severn Estuary, Berkeley is a small market town, a trading centre for the surrounding rural community, as it has

Each week, on market day, colourful stalls line the pavements of the High Street, and shoppers come from all over East Devon as they have for centuries.

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.

An ancient market town, Ormskirk was an important centre for the linen trade during the 16th century, whilst in the late 18th and early 19th centuries there were silk mills in the area.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

They walked to the Welsh border and beyond, where they were fattened ready for sale to English markets. This route was chosen because it had no expensive toll gates.

In the 12th century Alresford was a prosperous community - so much so that it was later considered one of England's most important wool markets.

Caton once had an important market.

With the east and west wings added in 1891 and 1903, the building housed a post office, the county court and the headquarters of various societies, with the market in fields behind.