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Ulverston was granted a market charter as early as 1280 by Edward I. The international aspect of the town's trade can be seen by the sign outside Joseph Hird's grocery in the centre of the picture.

As payment, the villagers were exempt from market and road tolls.

A new fish market exists on this site, but little else is changed; the lighthouse on the new pier still guides ships back into the shelter of this welcoming harbour.

It was used for weighing the wagonloads of produce on their way to the market. When it was overhauled in 1929, it was found to be accurate to within two ounces!

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells.

Home of the famous 'Furry-Day', Helston was an important market centre for local produce.

The building to the left is the rear of the China Bowl, which fronts onto the market place near the main entrance to the church, where once the stocks and whipping post stood.

The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.

A busy market day. In the background is the parish church, which contains some elaborate monuments to the Clifford family, the Earls of Cumberland.

Dodbrooke is now part of Kingsbridge, but it once had a market of its own.

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

Either side of the market place in front of it are various 19th century buildings, some of which were quite new when this photograph was taken.

Grange Farm was offered on the market as building land in 1935, but it was purchased in 1938 by the London Parochial Charities as a campsite for the children of families living in the East End of London

It marks the site of the old market cross, and contains a bell dating from 1684 that once served as the town's fire alarm.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

At the opposite end of the High Street from Town Bridge, John Bunyan's staue complements that of John Howard in the Market Place.

A Royal Blue coach bound for Liverpool pulls into Market Street. The Cotswold-stone Dorchester Hotel, seen on the extreme left of the photograph, opened in 1947.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.

Stramongate means 'the street of the straw men', presumably those who brought the straw to the cattle market.

Bath Street, leading off the Market Place, is one of Ilkeston's main shopping streets. This view looks back towards the tower of St Mark's at the end of the street.

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

The centre of the Market Place is marked by a splendid Victorian cast iron water pump, decorated with fish, crown and arrows, and the motto 'Defend They Ryghts'.

On the left is the Market House, and nearby is the Red Lion.