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The statue of Richard Oastler and two children was unveiled in May 1869 at what was then the end of Market Street - Forster Square had yet to be laid out.

This photograph captures the atmosphere and feel of Kettering's bustling market, which is much the same now as it was then. On the extreme right of the picture is the mid 19th-century Corn Exchange.

Another wide street, and also laid out as a market, it has many good stone houses, including almshouses of 1877 on the left and several pubs.

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.

Medieval Andover was established around a market which stands in the shadow of the 19th century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and

Silver Street originally stood just outside the city walls, linking Lowesmoor with Corn Market, until it was cut off from the latter by the construction of City Walls Road.

This old market town, famed for its manufacture of nails, is situated on the slopes of the Lickey Hills.

Calne can also boast of having a market for over a thousand years: some record. This photograph shows some of the town's best Georgian buildings, with St Mary's church in the centre.

The market place is the focal point of the town; the 17th-century Butter Cross offered shelter to the women selling dairy produce. The classical Tuscan columns support a pyramidal stone-slated roof.

Close to the John Wynne Almshouses, buses turned in front of the buildings and the open space was used for stalls on market day and for attractions when the fair came to the town.

Two helmeted local 'bobbies' stride towards the camera in another view of the Market Place in Chesterfield, looking up the High Street towards the famous Crooked Spire of the parish church of St Mary

The city's fish market was located here until the late 1990s, when it moved across the harbour to a new purpose-built dock.

The settlement here 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.

The site of the memorial had from 1839 to 1858 been occupied by a glass-roofed corn market — it was then transferred to its new location on the other side of Broad Street.

Here we see a busy day in the Market Place with charabancs and cars parked outside the magnificent Abbey Gateway, which was built in 1338.

We can just see the Market Cross on the right in the distance. Two vehicles from the United Bus Company pick up passengers, the nearer one (centre right) serving the Great Ayton to Redcar route.

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The M25 now skirts the south of this former market town, and link roads have destroyed some of the town's ancient character and streets.

and entertainment centre of Barnsley until the late 1960s; then, in the name of modernisation, the whole area including New Street and Cheapside was demolished to make way for a new market

From the north-west corner of Market Place, Town Street descends the hill past a drapers, a dairy utensil manufacturer and a shoe shop, all three displaying their wares.

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.

Capable of weighing up to 2.5 tons, it would weigh the wagon before going to market, and again when it returned empty. No doubt the day's trade would be celebrated over a pint in the inn!

The Moot Hall was built c1540 in the Market Place, but coastal erosion has left it on the seafront.

In the centre are the pump, in use until 1939, and the 16th-century market cross. On the right are Mabel Kemp's cycle shop and Isaac Minn's, a saddler's.