Editing Whitwick (section)

===Market and fair===
From 1838 until the early 20th century, there was a thriving weekly market held in Whitwick Market Place. As well as the regular local stallholders a number of Leicester tradesmen attended and it is remembered that old ladies used to bring their butter and other farm produce and line up alongside the gutter.<ref name="ReferenceA">Introduction to Coalville, local publication, circa 1970</ref> In the years following the [[First World War]], competition from the larger and newer market at Coalville eventually resulted in its discontinuance.

The annual fair, or ''wakes'', was once a hugely popular event and coincided with the patronal festival of the [[parish church]]. At the height of its popularity in the early 20th century, it is remembered that the larger amusements stood in the opening in front of the White Horse [[public house]] and there were wild beast shows including seals swimming around in tanks. The local photographer would take snapshots (on glass) and deliver them while the customers waited. There was also once a 'Cabbage Street Wakes', of rather obscure origin, when cabbages were used to decorate the lampposts in Cademan Street.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>