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It no longer functions as a covered market place. The building housing the premises of A H Rowley, tailor, is now occupied by Keates of Witney, which coincidentally sells menswear.

Market Deeping has been fortunate in that it has kept most of its attractive stone buildings, and this street is still much the same today.

The Market Place at Ripon is still the scene of the daily 'Setting the Watch' ceremony, when the city Wakeman blows his ancient horn at 9pm to announce that the city is now in his care.

Double-decker buses still plied in and out of Selby's bustling Market Place at this time.

In the centre we can see the Grapes public house, and to the right is the sign for the Sun Inn, behind which was a smithfield, or cattle market.

Until 1825 there were no surface drains in Macclesfield and the only part of the town with a piped water supply was the area around the Market Place.

The low wall on the extreme left had been a pound - an overnight stopping-point for animals being driven to Chelmsford's livestock market.

The Cattle Market stands next to the old Norman castle.

The Conduit was moved to its present location after the dissolution of the religious house and used as a market building. It has since served as a police station, reading room and bank.

This old-established market town is dominated by the great pinnacled tower of its fifteenth century church, which is pleasantly situated in a square.

The market was moved to nearby Newgate in 1955. At the forefront to the left of the photograph is a horse-drawn bus with baskets of wares being carried on the roof.

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

Basildon's market opened on 6 September 1958.

This view shows the other end of the Square abutting Market Street. Marks & Spencer can just be seen on the left.

The white three-storey building on the left, 18/20 Market Street, was the shop of W Morgan & Sons, butchers and fishmongers.

Sad to say, the original 14th-century Saxon cross in the Market Square, seen here with its iron support, succumbed to old age.

Just off Main Road, Junction Road lies sufficiently distant from the hubbub of the market and town centre to provide a tranquil setting for tasteful town villas.

Local businessmen were also keen investors in the iron bridge, which opened markets to the north.

East of Market Deeping and joined to it is Deeping St James village. At its heart is this curious structure in medieval stone.

The Bishop of Winchester granted a weekly market here in the 13th century, and looking at this photograph of one of the village streets, little has changed since the mid 1950s.

Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.

The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name. Upstairs was the Blue Coat Charity School (the name came from the uniforms given to the boys to wear).

It was erected on the site of the old market hall, which was demolished in c1860.

On either side of the High Street, some of the former well-stocked shops have become estate agents, marketing the many bungalows and houses that were built for families who came year after year to enjoy