Original Medium: Oil on canvas

Although this scene is imagined, it is partly based on the market in Pendlebury. It is very light and bright with a lively throng of people and children enjoying the day. Lowry said, ‘I wanted to paint myself into what absorbed me. Natural figures would have broken the spell of it, so I made them half unreal… Had I drawn them as they are, it would not have looked like a vision.’