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The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

It reinvented itself as a cloth-weaving town, and is today a quaint market town with narrow streets. The Elizabethan town hall is now the museum.

This is the top of Market Street, adjacent to Piccadilly.

The modern town centre is well to the west around Corporation Street and the Market Square.

Most local needs could be found on Market Street, with its stone-fronted shops. Many of Shaw`s sturdy stone terraced houses had no bathrooms, and a tin bath is on sale on the left.

K Block housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

No parking restrictions were in place at this date, and the Market Place served as the bus station. Car ownership was still a minority activity, despite the number of cars we can see here.

By the 1980s, the market and the linear shopping area in Marlowes were dated and losing trade.

Here we see the Royal Exchange from the corner of Market Street and Cross Street.

The Great Market Place, as it was once called, is thought to have been laid out by Bishop Hugh le Puiset in about 1164.

To the south of the Market Square are the abbey buildings. This is a Victorian reconstruction of the last remnants of the Cluniac priory.

Trendell's Queen Victoria statue was originally in the Market Place, and was moved here in 1946.

Further down in the square is the Market Cross of 1874.

Directly opposite we see the impressive pediment of the Eastgate Market entrance, which in 1973 was dismantled, then rebuilt stone by stone 130ft to the east.

The Market Hall cinema, showing 'Room at The Top' at the time of this photograph, still operates, though the central window below its clock has gone.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw over one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

A public library had been opened in 1896 in the Corn Exchange in the Market Place. It then moved to Silver Street, and finally came to rest here in 1904.

The decaying Moot Hall of 1769 dominates this view of the market square. It was later restored and now houses the Daventry Museum, the town mayor's parlour and the tourist information centre.

It was here that woollen fairs and cattle markets were held, until the square became too developed; then the fairs moved down to Castlefields.

This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.

The lime trees (now gone) were planted in 1888, when the Square was no longer a livestock market.

Looking down Ropergate towards the Market Place, on the left we see the old Crescent Cinema (1926-1993), one of five picture palaces once in the town.

The Market Hall cinema, showing 'Room at The Top' at the time of this photograph, still operates, though the central window below its clock has gone.

The market was originally chartered in 1542 and resurrected in 1920; a weekly auction was held under the trees, and the cattle and sheep were held here in pens.