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  1. Interesting information! The five boroughs of New York and their fruit and vegetables stands are just as busy on a daily basis. Then you have “marketing” days during the week and weekends!

    • My husband grew up in the market town of Beverley, in East Yorkshire. They have a Wednesday Market and a Saturday Market that date back many centuries, and there’s a Market Cross at the Saturday Market. I love visiting there!

  2. Every Saturday, during the summer months until noon, vendors, selling produce and wares, assemble on our courthouse lawn, which is our town square. It is called a square as it is bracketed by four streets.

    I noticed in the first picture a certain type of hat worn by the women. Vendors wore them and it looked like servants doing the shopping wore them. The lady with the gentleman was dressed more elegantly. I’m wondering if the merchants and lower classes wore that type of hat. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing this information with us.

  3. I did not know that Chipping indicated a market!!

    Now “Market Chipping” in Howl’s Moving Castle makes so much sense! Of course Diana Wynne Jones, who named the hat makers “Hatters”, to name the market town “Market Market” LOL

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