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This is where regular market days were held, with farmers and traders selling all kinds of products, including small live stock.

At the bottom end of the High Street, in the old market place, pride of place goes to the water pump crowned by a gas street light. The gabled building was newly built at this time.

Covering an area of seventeen acres, the park includes a statue of Queen Victoria, guarded by two terracotta lions which originally stood in the Market Place.

Moving south from Thrapston we reach Raunds, another small Northamptonshire market town transformed into a Victorian boot and shoe manufacturing town.

Either side of the market place in front of it are various 19th century buildings, some of which were quite new when this photograph was taken.

The site became the market in 1973.

A classic view of a market town.

St Leonard's church was at the heart of the civilian community at one end of the hill, with the castle at the other end and the High Street with its market linking the two.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

Used mainly for entertainment, it was erected over the market house in 1769, but it has since been rebuilt. The library has now moved, along with the Court House, which was once above it.

Near to the site of this memorial was the old market cross, removed in 1837.

The statue had stood in the Old Market Square for 48 years until it was removed in 1953 and replaced by a traffic island.

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Between the Guildhall and St Peter Mancroft's church all the buildings on the right, except the Sir Garnet Wolseley pub, were demolished in the 1930s; the market was extended westwards to give the splendid

This is the wide High Street along the A25, where once a market was held; now it is all too often choked with traffic. The White Harte was built in the 16th century and refronted in the 18th century.

Between the Guildhall and St Peter Mancroft's church all the buildings on the right, except the Sir Garnet Wolseley pub, were demolished in the 1930s; the market was extended westwards to give the splendid

This photograph was taken from the top near the Market Place, with Castle Wynd up on the right.

Three-storeyed 18th-century town houses, including the King's Arms Hotel in the middle distance, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

Ainsdale was a failed attempt by Charles Webb to create an up- market residential area close to Birkdale.

Ainsdale was a failed attempt by Charles Webb to create an up-market residential area close to Birkdale.

Today it is a pleasing old market town on the banks of the River Stour.

When this photograph was taken, there was not a lot more to Huntingdon than its long High Street, which leads off Market Hill in both directions, overlooked by the graceful spire of the now-lost Trnity

J Shipley Slipper, a dentist, held a surgery at Waldock's on the left, but only on alternate market days - a long wait if you'd just missed him.

J Shipley Slipper, a dentist, held a surgery at Waldock's on the left, but only on alternate market days - a long wait if you'd just missed him.