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Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter. I

The taller building straight ahead was Manor House Dairy, supplying butter, cheese and eggs. To the left is the hall of the first WI to be established in East Suffolk - it started in September 1918.

The Butter Cross in the centre of Kirkby Malzeard, north west of Ripon, was the traditional venue for the village's famous Sword Dance, now rarely performed.

Meanwhile, shoppers could pop into Longs (left) for unrationed sweets or stand and admire the dexterity of the assistants in the Maypole Dairy next door as they patted a pound of golden butter into shape

The market place is the focal point of the town; the 17th-century Butter Cross offered shelter to the women selling dairy produce. The classical Tuscan columns support a pyramidal stone-slated roof.

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).

The ancient Butter Cross became unsafe and was replaced in 2000 by a wrought iron replica with seating.

In 1914 a pound of butter at the Meadow Dairy Co would have cost 1s 3d; by 1920 the war had pushed the price up to 2s 11d.

P H Fisher's Notes and Recollections of Stroud states that 'to the ground floor of the Market House butter women and dealers in poultry, fruit and vegetables from the country formerly resorted on market

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

The early 16th-century Butter Cross, with its 13 stone piers, was originally built as a shrine; the cupola and clock turret were added in 1683. It no longer functions as a covered market place.

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

Buttermere takes its name from Old English, and means 'the lake by the dairy pastures'—where the butter is made.The farmstead of High Stile is still in the same business a thousand years later.

Two ox heads above granite pillars on the left indicate the Market House entrance, erected in 1840 for meat, poultry and butter.

The building dates from 1738, and at one time the local cheese and butter market was held here.

The lower part was originally open, and was used for the selling of eggs, butter and cheese.

The access to Butter Row Lane has now been improved by the demolition of the rather odd-shaped building on the right. The shop opposite it, then the post office, has also gone.

Besides having good window displays, the shop would place blackboards outside: 'Danish prize dairy butter, Lancashire and Cheddar cheese, noted teas and coffees and unequalled Wiltshire and Danish bacon

The Butter Cross was built in 1689, after the fire of the previous year which destroyed much of the town.

This view was taken standing against the old Butter Cross looking down the St Ives road.

A year after a fire razed most of Bungay to the ground in 1688, the Butter Cross was built to commemorate it.

Similarly, butter was 1s 3d in 1914, 2s 11d in 1920 and 1s 2d in 1933.