Not far from Cascade Steps is this Gromit. He is dressed as a super hero. He still can't fly though, unlike me, as you need wings, not a cape or a leotard. Otherwise the sky would be full of people going to their latest keep fit craze. Which wouldn't be nice for me and my fellow dragons.
Over to St Nicholas Market now. There has been a market here since 1743. The building Gromit is in is the Corn Exchange. Not that it was ever used exclusively as a corn exchange. It was used by all different types of merchants. Initially it didn't have a roof over the internal courtyard as the traders weren't used to trading indoors. Around 100 years later they changed their minds and a roof was put on. It's the last surviving exchange building from the 18th C as the other two, in Liverpool and London, burnt down. There's a market here and in the surrounding streets every day.
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