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This is the west side of the market place; we have a better view of the church with its massive tower and noble parapets.

There are a few market traders plying their trade, but there are no crowds of customers - it could be early morning before business has got going.

The corner shop is that of Cox and Humphries, a hardware and sports store, with Boots the Chemist towards the Market Place.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Hanging across the quarry is a 'blondin' crane for raising stone from the depths, while in the background a steep incline ascends to the workshops where the slate was split and dressed for market.

The pretty ironstone village, once a market town, descends the lower slopes of the ridge along the Uppingham Road.

The road has not changed, and the route into the Market Place is still the same; however, as in most of these photographs, the telegraph poles have long since gone.

The following year, Hertford was back in Scotland, burning five market towns, sacking 243 villages, and laying waste to crops. Edward VI of England was destined not marry the Queen of Scots.

Horse-drawn carts were often left on the forecourt while their owners attended the nearby market.

However, there are good parts surviving on its hilly site, and the Market Place is thriving. This view was taken from beside the Town Hall of 1836, looking north to the corner of Westgate.

We return up London Road to the Wheat Sheaf and turn right into New Street, formerly called Lichfield Street, which takes us back to the Market Place.

The solitary cow tied to the railings gives a symbolic forewarning of the end of the cattle market some 12 years later.

Frith's Victorian photographer was in the lane leading to the abbey gateway, and looking across the Market Place to what is now undoubtedly the finest building in Abingdon: the Town Hall.

The building to the left is K Block; it housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

This view shows the Market Place, with the A689 to Crook on the right and the B6297 to Tow Law on the left. Wolsingham has had a long association with the Roman Catholic faith.

This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.

Kingsbury Square is the market place for the oldest part of the town; this grew up around the church, whose tower can be seen beyond the roofs.

We are looking from Market Square south-east into Walton Street. The Bell had been reworked in 1919, and is still much the same.

This street-name reminds us of Belfast the market town: the view looks from Arthur Square (another Chichester name).

An old centre for the district that had a market close to the Hampshire border and the coast. The church of St John the Baptist has an avenue of yew trees.

Nearby is the fantastic Fantasy Island development, with the largest Sunday market in Europe and several white knuckle rides; one is said to be the biggest or highest in England at over 300ft high.

St Mary Magdalene's church runs west from the Market Place and was heavily Victorianised and extended – the new chancel's foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Portland in 1887.

It was an old market under the Camois family, and is now a district of Worthing. In the picture we see large houses with garden walls of flint.