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Caption For Salisbury, High Street C1955

The same view as photograph number S48117, taken some time later, shows changes.

Caption For Debenham, Market Square C1955

The wide shop on the left belongs to Henry Abbot, the long-established draper's, which became a Co-op in the late 1990s.

Caption For Leiston, High Street C1960

This is the lower end of the High Street, with the Long Shop complex off to the right and Victoria Road to the left.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1955

G W Frank's butcher's shop possesses perhaps the finest remaining shop frontage in the town, with its original Art Deco design butcher's fittings dating from the 1930s.

Caption For Devizes, Sidmouth Street C1960

The premises on the left include a tobacconist, a public house, a grocer, a draper, a TV and radio shop, a ladies' clothes shop and a footwear shop.

Caption For Stamford, Red Lion Square 1922

The shop on the right is occupied by Finlay's shoe shop, as is attested by the display outside — today it is the HSBC Bank.

Caption For Highworth, Swindon Street C1950

Looking South The Co-op store on the left was previously a double-fronted residential property (today the windows are gone, and the shop has been taken into a new Co-op store which replaced

Caption For Saxilby, High Street C1965

The whole of the shop extension has been removed, the chimney has gone from the house behind the shop, and it has all been redeveloped.

Caption For Andover, London Street 1904

In the 1970s a corner shop would still be trading on the 1904 site of L Green's Confectionary Shop opposite Nutley's Alehouse, which, it was said, was only ever lit by candles.

Caption For Broadstone, Dunyeats Road C1960

With the spread of suburbs around the larger settlements, functional but small shopping centres were established to cater for a growing population, with handy parking for the increasing number of car owners

Caption For Nottingham, Pelham Street 1890

On the right is Boots the Chemist's first shop in Pelham Street, opened in 1892.

Caption For Melton, High Street C1955

Three of the four terrace houses on the right were once shops.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

This shop was run by two generations of Ben Friars from around 1910 to 1982.

Caption For Sudbury, St Peter's Church And Market Hill 1900

The nearest shop is Robert Joy's, general draper and silk mercer, who also had a shop on the opposite side of the market.

Caption For Farnborough, Peabody Road C1965

Providing a mixture of both residential and commercial property, Peabody Road was still enough part of the shopping centre to be able to boast Curzon and Son's betting shop, Tottles' newsagents, the

Caption For Banstead, High Street C1955

The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.

Caption For Saffron Walden, King Street C1965

On the right is a tobacconist and sweet shop with 19th-century windows and a Players cigarette vending machine outside.

Caption For Ainsdale, Station Road C1965

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

Caption For St Austell, Fore Street C1960

Timothy Whites & Taylors was once a familiar shop selling medicines and household goods on many high streets.

Caption For Stockport, Little Under Bank 1968

Our picture features Winter's jewellery shop and Petersgate Bridge.