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Caption For Chester, Eastgate Street 1891

The Rows are a unique feature to Chester; they provide shops on two levels, the roofs of the shops at street level forming a pedestrian walkway for the shops on the second level.

Caption For Crowland, North Street C1955

On the left, Parnell's shop is now the Ideal Shop, still selling newspapers.

Caption For Wisbech, Market Place C1955

In this view the Freeman Hardy & Willis shop stands on the site of the Old Talbot, and two shops along is where the Golden Lion was situated.

Caption For Freshfield, Post Office, Old Town Lane C1965

It is the furthest away of these three shops (on the corner) which is the Post Office.

Caption For Salisbury, Poultry Cross And Silver Street 1906

For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.

Caption For Wickham, The Square C1965

The first shop on the left is the newsagent, and next to it is the Co-op.

Caption For Eastbourne, Terminus Road 1925

Just past the Midland Bank, looking north west, the elegant late Victorian shops on the left survive, although W H Smith has now moved on.

Caption For Bath, Union Street C1955

Union Street is now pedestrianised; this view shows some of the modern shop fronts installed by 1955 which replaced the much better Victorian ones.

Caption For South Wigston, Gloucester Crescent C1960

A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.

Caption For Chipstead, High Road C1965

Frank Butcher`s newsagent and tobacconist shop at the north end of High Road has a well stocked window but alas has now been demolished, and the other shops have closed.

Caption For Harlow, Market House C1955

There were to be three types of shopping: the open-air market, a variety of shops on three sides, and a first-floor row of shops that did not need a window display, such as hairdressers, opticians, photographers

Caption For Market Rasen, Queen Street C1960

Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop.

Caption For Crowland, North Street C1955

On the left, Parnell's shop is now the Ideal Shop, still selling newspapers.

Caption For Whittlesey, Market Street C1965

This view down Market Street shows how Whittlesey has prospered in the past fifty years.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street C1955

On the left is the Electricity Centre; Selright, a ladies' fashion shop: Topping's shoe shop; and Anscombes the photographer's.

Caption For Stapleford, London Road, Post Office Stores C1960

The house and shop were possibly built in the 1930s.

Caption For Fleet, Fleet Road 1924

Still a mixture of residential and commercial properties, Fleet Road is nonetheless well on the way to becoming Fleet's principle shopping street.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1960

As neo-Georgian buildings replaced the older local shops, the shopping centre of Kettering also developed wth nation-wide multiple stores.

Caption For Bishopstone, Post Office And Stores 1908

He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores.

Caption For Bebington, The Village 1936

Irwin's Grocery shop is now occupied by a barber's, a ladies' hair salon and an electronics shop.