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dissolved the abbey, and only the Spital Gateway remains.The wool industry was delivered into the hands of merchant adventurers, who built the huge perpendicular wool church that now dominates the town's market

We are looking east towards the town centre; the Market House dome is just visible at the end of the street.

The town's other coaching inns were the Grey Mare Inn in the Market Place for services to Leeds, York, Liverpool, Manchester and Clitheroe; the Eagle & Child in Silver Street for Manchester and Skipton

The market opened in 1868, and the Co-op was here from 1872, complete with its own Fire Brigade.

Capable of weighing up to 2.5 tons, it would weigh the wagon before going to market, and again when it returned empty. No doubt the day's trade would be celebrated over a pint in the inn!

Here the photographer looks down the alley from Market Square to the entrance bay; the oriel window was added by George Devey for the Rothschilds in the 1870s.

This street is so called because the Market Place, Frenchgate and Ryder's Wynd all drained into it.

Of the shops visible here, none is still in retail use except what was Walton's pork butcher's on the Market Place corner (right). Centre left is Castle Walk.

Its true origins are unclear, but the most feasible suggestion is that it was the old market cross of Snettisham, which the le Strange family brought to Old Hunstanton when they inherited

The clock on Botley's Market Hall is still a familiar landmark in the High Street. Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's.

retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales market

East Retford has at its heart a market place, first chartered in 1246.

Smiddy Hill in Pickering, a bustling little market town west of Scarborough on the edge of the moors, probably takes its name from the site of a former blacksmith's shop in the area.

The clock on Botley's Market Hall is still a familiar landmark in the High Street. Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's.

The market is held here on Saturdays.

The old timber market hall once stood here, built by John Abel in 1633, with magnificent carving detail.

The Town Hall and magistrates' court still dominates Market Hill.

This great space was created by Bishop Flambard at the beginning of the 12th century: he decided to demolish the clutter of wooden houses and the market place because of the potential fire hazard

The central section was the Market House, and dates from c1450. The wing to the left was added as the Guildhall. It was later partly under-built in brick, hence the loss of the jetty.

This is a classic view of the market town of Bakewell, seen from the steeply climbing Station Road.

Its architectural focus is the domed Market Hall and St Mary's Church with its tall spire emerging from a somewhat squat tower.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion (on the right), and the Brown Cow.

The square building to the left of the bridge is the old Market Hall which later became Town Tailors and then Burberrys, both providing welcome employment locally.