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This view shows the other end of the Square abutting Market Street. Marks & Spencer can just be seen on the left.

The white three-storey building on the left, 18/20 Market Street, was the shop of W Morgan & Sons, butchers and fishmongers.

Sad to say, the original 14th-century Saxon cross in the Market Square, seen here with its iron support, succumbed to old age.

Just off Main Road, Junction Road lies sufficiently distant from the hubbub of the market and town centre to provide a tranquil setting for tasteful town villas.

Local businessmen were also keen investors in the iron bridge, which opened markets to the north.

East of Market Deeping and joined to it is Deeping St James village. At its heart is this curious structure in medieval stone.

The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.

The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name. Upstairs was the Blue Coat Charity School (the name came from the uniforms given to the boys to wear).

It was erected on the site of the old market hall, which was demolished in c1860.

On either side of the High Street, some of the former well-stocked shops have become estate agents, marketing the many bungalows and houses that were built for families who came year after year to enjoy

The richly timber-framed 15th-cen- tury George and Dragon on the left is a highlight; beyond is the Square, with its 15th-century market cross.

The market here dates back to medieval times, when it was one of the most important in existence. A great fire in 1689 destroyed over a hundred houses.

Another wide street, and also laid out as a market, it has many good stone houses, including almshouses of 1877 on the left and several pubs.

Markets and ports were an important part of the trading network during the Middle Ages. Indeed, by Domesday Arundel was already an important river port.

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee statue of 1887 replaced a market cross, and emphasises the 'company town' nature of Royal Windsor, for the castle has been a royal residence since 1075.

Medieval Andover was established around a market which stands in the shadow of the 19th century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and described

Situated in the southwest corner of the Market Place, the building dates from the 13th century and was the home of Hugh Ripley, the first mayor of Ripon, who was appointed in 1604.

A lady in traditional dress poses with her pannier donkey in Higher Market Street, East Looe, outside the old 16th-century guildhall.

Market Place c1955. One of Blandford's ancient industries was glass painting.

The site of the memorial had from 1839 to 1858 been occupied by a glass-roofed corn market — it was then transferred to its new location on the other side of Broad Street.

This excellent view of the shops on the side opposite the Market Hall shows an attractive variety of architecture.

It was right on the edge of the Black Country, and it had almost the air of a rural market town.

This notable shopping street leads out of the market place towards the river. The awnings are up so it must be a sweltering summer's day.