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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.

Mechanization might well have reached market traders, but down on the farm things were different. Here a sled is being put to good use during haymaking near Hawes.

The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

The settlement was probably established in Saxon times, though it did not become an important trading centre until the Abbot of Buckfast established a market here in 1219.

Note the bus stop on the corner ( left) - buses no longer enter the Market Place today. The Red Lion Hotel (left) is being renovated.

The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.

The Town Hall, standing in the middle of the ancient market place, was designed in 1857 by Edward Lamb of Manchester, using an unusual combination of bricks and flints in the main building, the tower and

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee statue of 1887 replaced a market cross, and it emphasises the 'company town' nature of Royal Windsor – the castle has been a royal residence sine 1075.

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee statue of 1887 replaced a market cross, and it emphasises the 'company town' nature of Royal Windsor – the castle has been a royal residence sine 1075.

Flookburgh is a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands. It was renowned for its cockle gatherers and fishing for flukes, or flat fish, in the estuary.

Dominating the Market Place is this dignified bronze statue, erected in 1861, of Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer, born in Spilsby in 1786.

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

A weekly animal market used to be held outside.

An old market town on the road to Lichfield, only seven miles from Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield hung on to its independence until annexed by its large neighbour in 1974.Though an important town in