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According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.
Arthur Hemmens's tiny shop clearly has a minimal space available for display.
Most of the buildings shown here have gone, and there is a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities where the clock tower appears.
Here we have a close view of Mr Evans' builder's and ironmonger's shop built on to the old tower, which was constructed in the 14th century.
A local resident described life in Caversham just before the turn of the century, when this photograph was taken: 'When we went shopping in the trap, we would stop outside the shop and the shopkeeper
Shopping Changes Basildon has experienced a shopping revolution in the last 50 years.
There is a mounting block outside G G William's ironmonger's shop (to the left of the bridge), now owned by Martin Day under the logical name Bridge Hardware.
This row of shops with their protective glass awnings was built in the grounds of Cleveley Lodge (the building at the far left end of the row) in the 1930s.
The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.
The awnings are out at the far end of the street to protect the stock in the shop windows from the summer sunshine, and in the foreground we can see frames for the awnings that have not been put up yet
For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.
The Shopping Arcade has scarcely changed since this photograph was taken in 1931.
All the buildings in the picture survive, although the shop fronts have changed.
Today the trees have matured, and the shop fronts have changed dramatically.
New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.
This photograph, taken 15 years after B258003 (p20-21), shows the new shop masthead on Boots.
Like Morgan's the confectioner's (C240004), this shop (left), a post office and grocer's run by Pardey & Johnson, was built at the end of the 19th century.
This view of the old Causeway shows Cliffords the chemist's (extreme right) just before the shop closed.
We can see tall lampposts, telephone line posts (still here), a bus stop and local shopping.
The new shops on Broadway are on the site of the former outside market.
