LEDBURY Market House has been at the heart of life in the town for hundreds of years.
Work started on the Market House in 1617 and the available records suggest that it was to be a two storey building, raised on sixteen pillars and having a timber frame with a brick infill, with a number of small shops constructed below, in between the stilts.
Market buildings like this were common, but the upper rooms were more often used for the transaction of business or as a town hall.
Popular local belief is that it was designed by architect John Abel, Carpenter to King Charles 1.
These wonderful images are all taken with permission from the Facebook group Hereford Herefordshire Remembered.
If you have any old photographs of Ledbury or the surrounding district please email them to matthew.holmes@newsquest.co.uk
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