Focus Week - Commencing 1 March 2010

Kingston Market : Returning to a Focus week in 1st year.

In 1st year, we went to Kingston market place, looking at the surrounding landscape etc...
however while on our visit I briefly read about the interesting history of the market which was rich in culture.

This focus week commencing on the 1st of March gave me the opportunity to research into it.
For this i visited Kingston Museum which had quite a bit of info on the history of Kingston as a whole.

From the 13th Century, weekly markets and annual fairs were held at the Kingston Market Place. In 1628 Charles I gave the town a monopoly of markets within a seven mile radius.

The striking feature of this market was the Guild Town Hall was used by the corporation from 1840 till 1935.