Preparations for the weekly sheep sale in 1910 with a railway porter looking on (extreme right). The animals may well have been brought in by rail for the sale from an outlying farm.

The cattle market with a sale in progress in the centre ring in 1970.

Another sale from 1970, this time sheep are going under the hammer. The man in the white coat is the auctioneer, Thomas Lyall, with town butcher George Gelsthorpe, of 9 West Street, also in a white coat, on the left, taking notes of what is on offer. The building behind was used by G R Holliday and Company, agricultural merchants, and also as a market office.

Metal railed pens for cattle and other animals awaiting sale with Hereward Street in the background. These were dismantled in 1988 and the site is now the car park adjoining Budgens' supermarket.

The premises above are those of W M Friend, agricultural engineer, machinery agent and dealer, who operated from premises in Meadowgate opposite the cattle market.