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Charlie Lee was a well-known trader in the town centre. Here is his original oyster stores on Buttermarket Street in the Old Fox Inn

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When the Old Fox was demolished, Charlie Lee opened a stall in the market. Charles Lee 'the younger' is standing to the left of his stall chatting to a customer in this 1950's photo. Each day he chalked a new poem on the board above the shellfish display.

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Hancock and Wood is a long-established family firm on Bridge Street, pictured here in the 1930's

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One of Boots earlier shops in Bridge Street.

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The main Boots Store was at Market Gate. Boots now occupies the most ornate building on Bridge Street, the Howard Building

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The Boots Store in the 1990's

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This shows the Howard Building (now Boots) when it was opened on 5th April 1907, with a plaque being unveiled to the building's namesake John Howard.

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The plaque records that John Howard the prison reformer lodged here in the 18th century

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TJ Lees's was one of the last shops demolished on the west side of Bridge Street during road-widening in the early 1900's

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The Grand Clothing Warehouse on Bridge Street

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This engraving of the Old Market Place dates from 1830.

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A new market hall for meat traders was built in 1856, followed by the fish market and the general market hall behind the Barley Mow Inn.

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The Victorian market was demolished in the early 1970's. This shot shows the fish market before the removal of its exterior corrugated iron cladding

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The new market was opened in 1974

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