not the Market Cross (1905), but the sweet shop just visible behind
The town suffered a bad fire before Christmas: a large, listed, building ablaze, with one occupant sadly dying.
The nature of the historic buildings (as far as I understand it) meant that fire appliances could not get near the back of the building - so very long ladders had to brought in to tackle it from the front - and they had to bring the big pumps in to get water from the river, because the normal water mains couldn't supply the volume necessary.
The sweet shop (second oldest in the UK) has appeared in my FB feed, encouraging people to shop in the town - so we did :-)
@tinley23 a very pleasant town - lots of history - still lots of independent shops (even though they eventually had to have a Booths) - little market on a Thursday.
