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Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

In 1632 the first cattle market was held in Dunraven Place. The Wyndham Arms, a Grade II listed building, used to be an important coaching inn.

Always of some local importance, the village had a weekly medieval market and three-day fair at the feast of St Botolph, granted in 1318.

However, the largest shopping mall in Lincolnshire is nearby, and so is the very useful-looking large indoor market.

Here we are looking west along Est Street, to the Town Hall and Market Place.

This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

On the ground floor is a pentice, a common feature of the High Street frontages, which must have kept many a market trader and his customers dry.

Nearer the camera is the bell turret of the old Market Hall, and beyond on the other side of the valley is the tower and spire of the parish church and to its left, beyond the cedar tree, is The Bury,

This view looks south down the High Street past a motor bike with its acetylene headlamp towards the old Market House with its cupola.

Given a decade of fresh ideas (see L211008 on the previous pages), the area around Leighton Buzzard's 15th-century Market Cross is once again a focal point and meeting place.

The prosperous Georgian feel of the town originates with the presence of the castle and with its role as a market town and agricultural centre.

This spacious boulevard is in fact Beast Market Hill, and was just that in years past. On the right is the former Ossington Coffee Palace.

All survives in Bridge Street, which leads out of the south- east side of the Market Place in the distance.

However, the largest shopping mall in Lincolnshire is nearby, and so is the very useful-looking large indoor market.

When first commissioned, she was placed on the up-market daily run from Glasgow to Tarbert and Ardrishaig, by way of Greenock, Dunoon, Rothesay and the Kyles of Bute.

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.

Though no longer in the Market Place, this fine monument to Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Mobbs was once a famous landmark in Northampton.

Frith's photographer was outside St Swithun's churchyard, looking through Cannon Square towards the south-east arm of the Market Square and the 18th-century White Hart.

The Market Square is at the junction of the High Street, Abbey Street and Chapel Lane. Chapel Lane was formerly Hogmarket, and is now called St John's Place.

As we turn our back on the Market Square, High Street runs westward to Sheaf Street.

This view looks along the north side of Market Square past the war memorial into Cambridge Street on the left of the Round House and the High Street to its right.

All the pews were sold in the market on 31 March 1859 and replaced with these chairs.

On the corner are No 2 Back Street and 20 Market Street (centre) whre W J Perry offers gifts and cream teas. Both are built of local iron-stained oolitic limestone.

He is looking along Germain Street towards the town centre and Market Place, but the houses beyond the bridge gave long been demolished.