Market Place, Leek

Description:A typical view of the Market Place covered with stalls on a Wednesday. On the right-hand side you can see The Butter Market, built in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Further up is the Red Lion, and the building which backs onto Stockwell Street is the former Cock Inn, part of which was the premises of Micah Harding. The old inn has since been knocked down and in its place stands the building which houses the Tourist Information Centre. On the left-hand side of the Market Place (behind the street lamp) is "Deebank House", housing T.H. Booth's leather factors shop and works. This building was used to hide Bonnie Prince Charlie's men during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. Looking straight ahead onto Stockwell Street, Foxlowe is in the centre, once the home of The Crusos and latterly the headquarters of the Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers & Kindred Trades and Leek Labour Party, while to the left are Curtis's shop and the Stockwell Stores.