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The colonnaded Market Hall, rebuilt in 1813, dominates the centre of Ilminster. The tall building to the left is the post office.

Dunmow's Market Place is otherwise known as Rood End. The Town Hall, in its original form, was built in 1578.

Bishop Thirlby built the market cross in the 16th century. It is an octagonal structure made of wood with an unusual three-tiered dome.

Here we see the sturdy porticoed front of Botley's famous Market Hall, built in 1848.

On the right, the coal wharf is now home to the new fish market and National Marine Aquarium, and the harbour now has lock gates to prevent it drying out at low tide.

The unusual octagonal tower topped by its elegant spire forms the backdrop to many views of the ancient market town and capital of the Peak.

This photograph is a reminder of the days when small market towns like Andover had more than one railway station.

This photograph, looking south from the Market Place in the opposite direction from photograph No 64302, and taken 15 years later, shows a very different scene.

The market place was encroached upon by later building, and is difficult to identify clearly, but it has several good 17th- century cottages around it, including this range of early 17th-century

Note the cars - all black - neatly parked in the foreground, and the slope leading down from the market square.

This distinguished market town lies at the head of a valley.

The Victorian Town Hall in the centre of the Market Place was built by the Watts-Russell family; today it is occupied by local businesses.

Legend says that a priest in olden times evicted five devils from the building, pursuing them up to the Market Place and into a flock of sheep.

It was essentially a wool town, and its great market was held in the wide stretch of road we see here.

The street came to life, and still does, on Wednesday market day.

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

The Market Cross and Chichester Cathedral spire can just be seen in this Victorian photograph. On the left is the Corn Exchange, built in 1830 for local corn auctions.

Named for the mulberry tree that grew in the garden, this 18th-century Kentish hall house in the High Street was once at the centre of Snodland, where the market cross stood outside The Red Lion inn opposite

Yarm has a remarkably wide High Street, typical of many North Riding market towns.

'Market tickets' costing 7d return were issued for travelling to Alton every Tuesday.

Buller's Quay in the foreground is now a car park, and the fish market is at the far end of the quay.

Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington. In the 18th century it was considered foolhardy to venture here after dark.

This view was taken looking up the Market Place; on the left was a three-gabled building, probably dating back to the Tudor period.

Sidmouth began as a small fishing town with a bustling local market, but even these activities had begun to decline by the time the first visitors arrived in the late 18th century.