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It is all bustle at the Market in this picture of the large Thames-side town, properly called Grays Thurrock.

The memorial fountain to Sir Wilfred Lawrence, the local MP and campaigner in the Temperance Movement, dominates the Market Place.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

The busy fish market on The Wharf. The wooden building on the railed platform is Shore Shelter Lodge, one of the famous St Ives Fishermen's 'Lodges', where fishermen gathered in their spare time.

Back in the Market Place, the photographer looks south down the High Street. Cook's on the corner is still a newsagent and stationer, Goodnews.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

Built in 1575 by Thomas Seckford, Elizabeth I's Master of the Rolls, Woodbridge's Shire Hall stands on an island in the middle of Market Hill.

Back in the Market Place, the photographer looks south down the High Street. Cook's on the corner is still a newsagent and stationer, Goodnews.

When steam-powered sawmills and mechanical production methods introduced ready-made furniture onto the market, thousands of craftsmen lost their jobs. Here, an old man re-canes a child's chair.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

This is the very top of Market Street as we turn out of Castle Hill. The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street.

Looking down Market Street towards St Mary's with the spire of St Martin's just visible beyond.

When Leland visited Weobley in 1540 he described it as 'a market-town where there is a goodly castle, but somewhat in decay'.

The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

A view north up Church Street with Surrey Street Market to the right.

The Market Hall and stocks once stood on Main Street opposite Ferrand Lane.

Roses twine around the doorway of the cottage on the right in this 50s photograph of Tideswell's Market Square, with the Belle Vue Hotel (now gone) in the centre background.

Parallel with Milford Street and leading to Market Square, this was a major shopping street before the new ring-road turned it into a cul-de-sac.

It was so-called because of all the apple orchards here - in fact it was said that on one day alone eight tons of apples were once picked here to be sent to market in Liverpool.

Before it was cut and constructed in the 1870s, traffic from the north-west and higher Salford had to wend its way through small back streets to reach the market and central Manchester (the Shambles).

The building has served as a school and a covered market, in addition to its use for civic duties. Watlington was once part of the vast Stonor estate.

Dunster's High Street was built wide to accommodate markets, and at this point it once held a row of shambles, or butcher's shops, in the middle.