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Caption For Winchester, High Street C1955

The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.

Caption For Teddington, Broad Street C1955

New housing and shopping facilities near the station were soon erected.

Caption For Sproughton, The Stores C1965

Lower House (right) and the former shop date from 1520-50.

Caption For Heswall, School Hill C1955

Notice the shop in the building on the right – this was known to local children as Dolly's Shop, and it served as an unofficial tuck shop for the local children from the school that was between it

Caption For Ellesmere Port, Whitby Road C1955

The row of shops is still there, but Mellor's baker's shop (centre) is now a locksmiths; the shops with awnings outside are now a florist's and the offices of the TGWU.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street C1965

This premises is now a fashion shop.

Caption For Cheltenham, High Street 1906

A tram takes Edwardians to Charlton Kings along a High Street decorated with some lovely examples of shop advertising signs.

Caption For York, The Shambles 1909

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

Caption For Kidsgrove, The Shopping Centre C1970

This was in the days when supermarkets complemented high street shopping.

Caption For Weybridge, Baker Street C1965

The buildings remain much as they were earlier; only the shop fronts have changed.

Caption For Preston, Fishergate C1960

Stylo Shoe Shop, John Collier ('the window to watch'), Richard Shops and Stead & Simpson are among the many varied shops facing the Market.

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1965

This view shows the same buildings as C490092 from the other end, showing clearly the Westminster Bank before its amalgamation with the National Provincial to become NatWest.

Caption For Swindon, Regent Circus And Commercial Road 1961

The old terrace of shops to the left include J N Read & Son, butchers.

Caption For Galleywood, The White Bear C1965

Fifteen years earlier, this scene would have looked very different: the houses and shops on the right were still open farmland.

Caption For Chertsey, Guildford Street 1954

The 18th-century King's Head Hotel survives, and so do the shops to the right, a 1930s parade, and a few shops beyond the hotel, but there has been much injudicious rebuilding from the 1960s onwards

Caption For Churt, The Village C1965

We are a little further north than view C105008; we can see the BP petrol pumps of Overton's Garage with the parade of shops beyond the Crossways.

Caption For Cheam, The Broadway C1955

The corner site (right), with Price's confectionery and newsagent's shop beneath the flats above, has now been developed.

Caption For Liverpool, Ranelagh Street C1950

Named after the 17th-century London pleasure gardens, Ranelagh Street provides an important link between Lime Street and the now pedestrianised shopping centre to the north of Hanover Street.

Caption For Guisborough, Bow Street C1965

Mr Pallister's butcher's shop flanks the entry to Bow Street.

Caption For Morden, Abbotsbury Road C1955

The variety of shops in Morden was to alter after the underground railway station opened in 1926 and large-scale retail development began.