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The area at the front of the Market Hall became a favourite meeting place with its wide pavement, seats and sunny aspect. Proximity to the bus station kept this area busy.

The old market cross stands on a grassy verge to the left of the pub sign. Behind the cross is the entrance to the pub car park.

Consequently, the buildings on the far left were later demolished when the road was widened to ease the flow of traffic through Market Drayton.

This view takes in the east end of the Market Place and Front Street. On the right is G W Roy's fancy repository and the post office, and just beyond that is the Black Horse pub.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

It provided the corn and cloth mills of Chalford with the means of finding new markets for their wares until this mode of transport was superseded by the Gloucester to Swindon railway line.

The market in Ringwood dates back to 1226, when Henry III granted a charter here.

The petrol station in the centre of the market place was the Town Hall with an open arcaded ground floor, the arches now glazed. It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate.

At the end of South Gate is the Market Place, which has on its east side one of Lincolnshire's finest churches.

Market days in Bury are Wednesday and Saturday.

A market was held here from 1154 until the 19th century. On the left is the corner of the brick-fronted manor house. The top of the church tower fell in 1829, which gave it a castle-like appearance.

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.