Warren the carriage maker in Bridge Street, c1900. With the advent of the motorcar he adapted to take account of this new technology and started to refurbish car bodywork.

No prizes for hygiene at this  Coggeshall butchers shop. It is New Year 1911 and the staff are posed outside the shop of Joyce the butcher on Market End, next to the Post Office.

The saddler and harness maker in East Street about the time of the Great War. A lot of the tools used in this business are now in the Museum's collection

One of Coggeshall's many public houses, the 'Tollhouse',  Colchester Road in about 1905. The pub was demolished in the 1970s for a road scheme which never happened!

Smith's taxis attend a wedding at St Peter's Church in 1927 with drivers in smart white coats. These vehicles obviously attracted a lot of attention from bystanders, as they would today.

Not strictly trade, although Coggeshall's retained fire service has been manned by part-timers for over 100 years. This 1939 picture shows the first motorised fire engine on the Market Hill. Until then the appliance had been horse-drawn.

The Coggeshall 'Heart in Hand' Co-operative store in Church Street, about 1935. Coggeshall's Co-op was one of the first in Essex.

The Co-op delivery van in East Street in the late 1930s.The long building in the background is the 'Kinema', always popular entertainment.

Workers at Gardner's brewery in Bridge Street about 1912. Flooding was a regular occurrence, but the production of beer carried on.

This 1906 picture shows Grange Hill with E. W. King's seed warehouse. The tall chimney on the skyline belonged to  J. K King, a bitter family rival.