Barnstaple, Devon - crowded Pannier Market -Sweetman real photo postcard c.1930s

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• Picture / Image:  The Pannier Market, Barnstaple, North Devon - real photo postcard
• Publisher:  E. A. Sweetman & Sons, Tunbridge Wells
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Barnstaple ⁱ/'b?rnst?b?l/ or /'b?rnst?p?l/^[1] is the main town of North Devon, England, and possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom. It is a former river-port, located at the lowest crossing-point of the River Taw, flowing into the Bristol Channel.

From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool, since the merchants claimed that the town had been declared a free borough in Saxon times. This brought great wealth to Barnstaple, whose town centre still preserves a medieval layout and character. Later the town became an importer of Irish wool, but its harbour silted up, and it developed other industries, such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills. Its Victorian market survives, with its high glass and timber roof on iron columns. Barnstaple railway station is the terminus of a branch line from Exeter, known as the Tarka Line.

Since 1974, Barnstaple has been a civil parish governed by town council.^[2] The parish itself has a population of 23,710, but the population of the whole urban area is 30,916,^[3] and including the satellite settlements known as the Barnstaple Town Area, it is 53,514.

Barnstaple has been the major market for North Devon since Saxon times. Demands for health regulation of its food market in Victorian times saw the construction in 1855 to 1856 of the town's Pannier Market, originally known as the Vegetable Market and designed by R D Gould. The building has a high glass and timber roof on iron columns. At 107 yards (98 m) long, it runs the length of Butchers Row. Market days are Monday – Crafts and General (April to December), Tuesday – General and Produce (all year), Wednesday – Arts Collectables and Books (all year), Thursday – Crafts and General (all year), Friday – General and Produce (all year) and Saturday – General and Produce (all year).

Built on the other side of the street at the same time as the Pannier Market, Butchers Row consists of ten shops with pilasters of Bath Stone, and wrought iron supports to an overhanging roof. Only two of the shops remain as butchers although the new shops still sell local agricultural goods. There is one baker, one delicatessen, two fishmongers, a florist and a greengrocer.

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=barnstaple

period=inter-war (1918-39)

publisher=sweetman

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89mm)