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Look at today and then see 100 years ago below...
A view towards Market Hill from The Pavement. It is here that the famous Monday Markets are held, huge one's on the Bank Holidays and smaller ones on Fridays
No traffic and no War Memorial, that had not happened yet!, notice the sheep pens of the old market, and just to prove the point look at this...
For what was possibly hundreds of years cattle and other livestock were sold in the wide streets of Market Hill and Broadway. The last cattle market was held in the streets on 27th September 1886 and on the 4th October 1886 the new market opened.
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The Cattle Market is now the site of the Bus Station and part of the Car Park however elements of the market still exist. If one studies the old photo you can make out the Market Office in the centre background. It is still here today and is used as a licenced betting office by Totus Ltd.
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The wooden building above now looks out of place in the middle of the car park but it was once the central point of the Cattle Market being the former Auction Ring. Cattle where once sold "under the hammer" within this building.
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