Mary Walley, left, from Mary's Meats pictured at Market Drayton Indoor Market
"Now, there's only two mainstay traders left – my mum's Mary's Meats and Shepley’s Butchers. My mum said if this carries on she's going to have go – and to see my mum crying, it was really upsetting. "Lots of people are on board with it," Gemma added,"it's a big issue in the town and we need it back, it's always been there for decades."
In the Victorian period, farmers' wives would often travel into the town on market day to sell their butter and cheese under the Buttercross.Market day in Market Drayton. Postcard dates May 22, 1915 "The indoor market and the weekly Wednesday street market are fast becoming disappearing tricks and it is happening now.
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