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Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

In addition to horse racing, the racecourse is now the venue for a large and popular Sunday market.

Although a market is still held in the High Street, there are no cattle fairs any more.

The church, with its distinctive spire, dates from the 15th century, and dominates the town's market square.

This was the medieval market place of a town strategically situated where the River Bure cut gently through higher (for Norfolk) ground.

These vehicles were extremely popular for short distance excursion work, and were also used to operate scheduled services between towns and outlying villages, especially on market days.

The town also has a Market House, which like many others, was originally open on the ground floor.

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

The obelisk is in fact an 18th-century market cross. The town grew during the 1840s with the sinking of the first coal mine in the locality.

The market town of Haltwhistle straddles the present-day A69 a few miles from the border with Cumbria.

The Town Hall on the left has a meat market on the ground floor, and butchers have come out to pose for the photograph.

Behind it is the Town Hall of 1825, containing council chambers, a market hall and a police station. The horse-drawn coach is perhaps waiting for custom from the Elephant and Castle Hotel opposite.

The homes in the middle distance would have been built to house the employees of the many market gardens in the area.

Even the close proximity of several coal mines did not cause Tamworth to lose its market town image.

Dell Quay, at the northern end of Chichester Harbour, was the landing place for cargo ships delivering goods to the market at Chichester.

This early 19th-century inn is used by farmers attending the adjacent Cutcombe Market.

This is Thursday, market day in Stowmarket. Stearn Brothers (straight ahead) had been a chemist's since the 1820s.

Early closing day gives a peaceful air to this normally busy market town, built around a six-acre lake known as Diss Mere: local tradition says that it is bottomless.

Here we have the old Market Square, renamed Cathedral Square in 1963.

Looking back down towards the market square in the distance, this view shows the old High Street prior to the 1980s modernisation.

Rogerson Hall was always regarded as being more 'up-market' than the rest.

This view looks from Market Square down Friargate.

No 57 Market Place was occupied by Lennard's shoe shop from 1939 (left), and before that was used by Mrs Swaffield as a tobacconists and hairdressers.

The delightful little market shelter in the foreground dates from the 16th century.