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Once an important and flourishing market on the old coach road, Lenham embodies a fine mix of building styles from medieval through to Georgian in its houses and shops.

Here on the right is the town's cattle- market. Formerly in the High Street, it moved to this more capacious site in 1862.

Just off the far end of the Market Place is the old Fishermen's Hospital, founded in 1702 for retired fishermen and their wives.

The Hundred, which runs down to the Market Place, is lined with striking houses and cottages. The Sawyers Arms, now a private house, can be spotted on the right.

Newton Abbot market has changed a great deal in both character and appearance since this photograph was taken in the 1920s.

The alley to the right of the hotel building now leads to the New Market Shopping Centre.

Although Hynburn Council has not owned any buses since 1996, a new bus station was provided by the Council alongside the market development in 2003.

We are standing underneath the market cross and looking down the High Street.

Here, we see the market where trippers could buy fish caught by local boats.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

The narrow street of Petty Cury runs between Market Hill and Sidney Street.

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.

Fordingbridge is now a busy market town, though in former days it was an important industrial centre, renowned for the manufacture of sailcloth and canvas.

Perhaps it is not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, but Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

Easingwold, on the busy A19 between York and Thirsk, was an important market town and coaching station on the Royal Mail run between York and Edinburgh.

This view looks from the junction of the High Street and South Parade on market day.

The narrow street of Petty Cury runs between Market Hill and Sidney Street.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the right of the square, next to the mid-19th century Market Hall.

This is located just 50m from the cathedral; it fronts onto the Bailey, a mediaeval street that follows the spine of the peninsula from the historic Market Place to Prebends Bridge.

Market Place is now known as Hutton Road, but the row of shops shown here is easily recognisable today.

Ahead are Rayston's, selling high-class provisions, and Thompson's New Market Restaurant.

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from RAF Chilmark nearby.

Half the pleasure of being on holiday oneself is watching others working, and it certainly was hard work for the fishermen off-loading their catch at the market.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.