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The city's fish market was located here until the late 1990s, when it moved across the harbour to a new purpose-built dock.

The largest town in south-west Northamptonshire, Brackley had a market charter since before 1217, its wealth having come from wool.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

Again looking back towards the church, this picture gives a good idea of the size of the Square, with the Market Hall on the left. Note the Dolphin Hotel on the left, and the Bugle Inn opposite.

The station, which lies a short distance to the left along Market Street, was used as a set during the filming of 'Brief Encounter'.

This vast open Market Hall was constructed in 1875, and the roof, carried on elaborately decorated cast-iron pillars and supports, covers an area of some 3,500 square yards.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

Financial problems eventually forced its closure, and British Leyland bought it to use as a marketing centre.

The sale of livestock, including sheep, goats and pigs, took place here on market days up to the start of World War II.

Another market day, this time in Skipton, the ancient gateway town to the eastern Dales. Note the Dales farmers and their wives sitting lined up to the right of the statue, perhaps waiting for a bus.

The gateway to the right is part of the 19th-century Market House, which became the post office.

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

In the centre we can see the Grapes public house, and to the right is the sign for the Sun Inn, behind which was a smithfield, or cattle market.

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

It sits above the River Lea, and is a world of arable fields and market-garden glasshouses.

This Cotswold market town possesses one of the greatest concentrations of protected buildings in the country. Among them is the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

The small market on the left is a relic of the town's original Royal Charter.

This view looks west from the Market Place into Station Street.

The medieval borough and market town of Bala is still loved for its wide streets in this most rural part of Meirionnydd.

The market here was established in 1251. This road takes its name from the bridge over the River Colne, visible in the foreground of the picture.

We are looking along Chesterfield's High Street from the cobbled Market Place - a scene little changed today.

Basildon's first shop opened in Market Pavement on 16 August 1958. It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

Mechanisation might well have reached market traders, but down on the farm things were different. Here a sled is being put to good use during haymaking near Hawes.

The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century