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Fine architecture from all periods survives and the town still prospers, thanks to the shoppers who arrive each week on market days.

This is a model medieval market place in its wide, long configuration. There is little remarkable about the buildings, which are mainly of the 19th century.

It had once had a market and, until the 19th century, a celebrated cattle fair. The project of Harlow New Town was initiated in 1947, to draw off some of London's surplus population.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired by the National Trust in the Peak District, in 1906.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

The Market Hall, built of red sandstone, dates from the mid 1600s and stands on the site of an earlier hall. The carving between the windows is of a bust of Charles II.

In the 1820s Ormskirk consisted of just four streets; market day was on a Thursday and there were annual fairs held on Aughton Common every Whit Monday and Tuesday and on 8 September.

Four heavy stone posts standing on a tall base decorated with quatrefoils carry timber beams and support the roof of the Market Cross.

Most of Market Street was taken up by the now demolished Red Lion.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

Behind it stands the Market Hall, which was built in 1869, its façade embellished with reliefs depicting bountiful plenty.

The tower of the parish church with its spire alongside, rather than above, lies ahead, with a path leading to the market square to its left.

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

This view looks west on market day. The White Hart Hotel's stuccoed front dates from about 1714. It is currently (March 2000) closed .

Roydon was once a market- town. A fair that used to be held every August (to mark St Peter's Day) lapsed during the Great War.

The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built. The butcher's, nearest the camera, is certainly attracting window-shoppers. Just to its left is a cafeteria.

This cutler and locksmith has an establised stall in the market in the Whitechapel Road. He is a general jobber, able to sharpen knives and tools, re-set saws, repair locks and cut replacement keys.

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of

Minchinhampton's very fine Market Hall dates from 1698, and demonstrates the early prosperity of this important wool town.

The prominent white board indicates Fowey's quay and market toll charges.

The small market town of Belford was once a coaching stop for travellers on the Great North Road.

Another view of Market Square, with the ivy-clad building of Wilson's High Class Confectioners and the Esthwaite Cafe in the centre of the photograph, and the King's Arms in the background.

When this photograph was taken, Bower House was the home of the Ford Marketing Institute.