Barrow in Furness’s original Covered Market was built for the Furness Railway Company in 1864 but was bought by Barrow Council in 1874. The site of the Indoor and Outdoor Markets had been the brainchild of Sir James Ramsden, who had earmarked the location in a master plan he drew up in 1856. Establishing a…

The Market Square has been the centre of Cambridge since the middle ages. Cambridge was a flourishing town by the 10th Centuary and even had its own mint. It was also the administrative centre for area and so it was a Town of some importance. By the time of the Domesday Book, in 1086 Cambridge…