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The Victorian Town Hall in the centre of the Market Place was built by the Watts-Russell family; today it is occupied by local businesses.

Legend says that a priest in olden times evicted five devils from the building, pursuing them up to the Market Place and into a flock of sheep.

It was essentially a wool town, and its great market was held in the wide stretch of road we see here.

The street came to life, and still does, on Wednesday market day.

The railway from Heacham to Wells was a lifeline for the export of local grain, vegetables, bricks and shellfish for metropolitan markets.

The Market Cross and Chichester Cathedral spire can just be seen in this Victorian photograph. On the left is the Corn Exchange, built in 1830 for local corn auctions.

Named for the mulberry tree that grew in the garden, this 18th-century Kentish hall house in the High Street was once at the centre of Snodland, where the market cross stood outside The Red Lion inn opposite

Yarm has a remarkably wide High Street, typical of many North Riding market towns.

'Market tickets' costing 7d return were issued for travelling to Alton every Tuesday.

Buller's Quay in the foreground is now a car park, and the fish market is at the far end of the quay.

Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington. In the 18th century it was considered foolhardy to venture here after dark.

This view was taken looking up the Market Place; on the left was a three-gabled building, probably dating back to the Tudor period.

Sidmouth began as a small fishing town with a bustling local market, but even these activities had begun to decline by the time the first visitors arrived in the late 18th century.

The High Street approach to the Market Place is seen here flanked by the Easiephit shoe shop and Woolworth's on one side, and the Rose & Crown Hotel on the other.

Standing in the upper Douglas Valley, Wigan was once a market town, but by the mid 19th century it was a major centre for Lancashire's coal industry.

It once had its own oasthouse and maltings, and a cattle-market used to take place in the inn yard.

The long, broad street winds through this attractive market town, that sits in the valley of the River Culm alongside the busy M5 motorway.

This market, with the medieval Luttrell Arms Hotel to the right and Conygar Tower on the hill behind, has little changed.

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

Opposite is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses, in whose yard the livestock market used to be held.

Those were the days before political correctness and school marketing. Schools like this were not afraid to teach character.

It is passing the elaborate façade of the Market Hall, which had been completed only the year before, in 1902.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.