Every year there was a Hiring Fair held in the
Market Square. Men and women stood in groups according to their occupations.
They used to wear items in their lapels like scissors, needle and thread, or
woven straw to identify their skills as domestic servants or agricultural
workers.
.People
who needed workers would go up to them and discuss wages and working
conditions.
(Sources: Young, R. (1996), 'St Neots Past',
Phillimore