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Similarly, butter was 1s 3d in 1914, 2s 11d in 1920 and 1s 2d in 1933.

Poultry was sold in the former, butter in the latter.

The woman is the widow Ann Parfitt, better known as Granny Bloomer, who died in 1920, aged 96, by which time she had 116 living descendants!

The pedimented building is Carr of York's Town Hall of 1773 built in local Mansfield sandstone; the ground floor meat market is now a shopping arcade, the Butter Market.

Butter was cut from a huge slab, sugar was weighed into stiff blue bags and biscuits also came loose - weighed out from large square tins.

One of Charles Wicksteed's inventions was a machine for the tearooms, which cut and buttered bread.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

S R Lovatt, on the right, had originally specialised in cheese and in other provisions such as bacon and butter, but as its window display indicates it sold general groceries as well.

There is a motorbike and sidecar up in the corner near the Butter Cross. Could it be the one bought for the police station in 1926?

On market days, Wednesday and Saturday, there are about 100 stalls trading in the Butter Market and Cornhill. Bury is one of the most thriving traditional markets in England.

Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.

Steps, fish stones and butter slabs were alongside, covered with produce on market days. Prices for markets as far off as Preston were set here.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

S R Lovatt, on the right, had originally specialised in cheese and in other provisions such as bacon and butter, but as its window display indicates it sold general groceries as well.

rainbow trout cooked in butter with almonds was priced at 11s 6d (62p). The half-bottle of red wine cost 4s 6d (42p). But bear in mind that a meal there in 1650 would have cost about 6d (2p).

They sold sleeping powders, cures for influ- enza and butter colour.

One of Charles Wicksteed's nventions was a machine for the tearooms, which cut and buttered bread.

The Friends Meeting House stands on Butter Hill in South Street, and below it is the beginning of the extensively-dug caves.

Tolpuddle is perhaps the most important place in Trade Union history, for it was from here that six farm labourers were transported to Australia in 1834 for taking an illegal oath in their quest for better

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

It is surrounded by six massive buttresses capable of withstanding cannon and battering ram attacks.

The character of Antrim's coast is nowhere better expressed than where it is possible to see the black basalt overlying the white chalk rocks, as here at the Wishing Arch.

The steep descent to the quay at Polruan has never been kind to traffic, and is better suited to pedestrians. Ice creams and postcards are for sale at the village shop.