West side of Market Place

Ex Fishers Regent Studio

Market Place looking north

Ex Fishers Regent Studio

West side of Market Place

Ex Fishers Regent Studio

Photographs of the market place in the 1950's

By Emma Sealy

In the first picture, the flag and chimney in the top left belong to Lacons Brewery, which was still going as late as the 1950's.

In the second picture you can see scaffolding aroud the tower of the Parish Church, which is the largest in Britain, and shoring on the side of a building on the left.  The empty site was later filled with the Woolworths Store.

In the third, the ornate building is Palmers Department Store, which, in 1902, became the first commercial premises to be illuminated by electricity.