What follows is a selection of adverts from the 19th and 20th centuries, which illustrates the wide variety of industries that were once so important to the town.

1851:

1865:

1872:

1877:

1880:

1881:

1896:

1909:

1927:

1933:

1947:

1952:

1958:

1970:

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