Market Town (1942)

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Following the development of a traditional English market town in Newark (Nottinghamshire), the film explores the importance of this central hub in encouraging buying and selling activities between rural and urban environments.

This central exchange is summed up perfectly by the narrator who exclaims 'some have come to sell their beasts, some have come to buy', however it is not just beasts that are up for trade with vegetables, flowers, fine china and net curtains also available.

The necessity of such market networks is displayed in the film, elucidating the positive impact on local agricultural business and the economic and social development of the countryside.

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