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The gala queen is crowned here annually, and a weekly Farmers' Market is held. The lamp replaced a cast iron fluted pillar in 1936.

Every ten days, the kilns were fired in the outlying fields, and there appeared to be a guaranteed and continuing market for their product.

The sign of a hairdresser is prominent - no doubt Mr Steward in the Market Place had retired by now. Beyond is Boots, established in the town pre- war.

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

Yet the north of the county is decidedly rolling, and a brisk walk up Halstead High Street or Maldon's Market Hill has been known to change the mind of many a disbeliever.

fifty years before our photograph one form of entertainment would be to sit on the low parapet of Salford Bridge, clay pipe in hand, and watch the farm carts fight their way over the bridge and on to the market

The buildings are presently in the ownership of the London Borough of Hillingdon, who recently turned away at the last moment from a resolution to market the buildings - a potential disaster put in the

The broad thoroughfare reflects not only the market town but also its link with the sea. Below the cobbles still runs the Belfast River, which once had quays allowing ships to come off the Lagan.

, but not for long: they were soon to move further along the High Street as Grantham's shopping centre gravitated towards St Peter's Hill, following the move of the F W Woolworth store from the Market

Cheltenham, on the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

The High Street, too, grew more restricted when another line of market stalls, permanent enough to have tiled roofs, was erected immediately to the east of Middle Row.

The locals themselves would hardly have strayed much beyond their villages, except to visit nearby market towns, or to drive livestock from parish to parish along the ancient droving routes which can

Needless to say, much has changed; however, the old Boots building remains, nowadays an estate agent's, helping to handle the thriving property market.

John Heathcoat and John Boden had a factory in Mill Street (now Market Street) making lace by powered machinery. This mill became the focus of the lacemakers' pent up anger in 1816.

Here we see Lewis's large and very ornate store at the top of Market Street, just four years after the death of its founder David Lewis in 1885.

The Old Town Hall was repaired and transformed into an Arts Centre, the old market square was rebuilt and the once shabby alleys and corner sites were improved beyond recognition.

Of course, private parties and firework displays lit up the sky for an hour or two, but within the town itself the event was marked solely by a countdown clock in the Market Square.

In the early 20th century horse wagonettes brought crowds from neighbouring villages into Ormskirk, and the market remained open long after dark, with paraffin lamps lighting the stalls.

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

the extreme left of the picture conjures up memories of tweeds and country pursuits; nowadays the branch is much more fashion orientated, but nevertheless to be found on the High Street in most large market

Vauxhall aimed their products at a high- class market in class-conscious Britain.

The gas 'Five Lamps' in the Market Place was replaced by an electronic lamp standard (with just two lamps!) and 50 years later that was moved to its present site in Liquorpond Street.

at the livestock market site next to the railway station.