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Caption For Debenham, High Street C1955

The late 19th-century shop extension beyond is Towell's fish and chip shop.

Caption For Wickford, High Street C1950

The shops on the left were built with bricks from the Nevendon Road brickworks.

Caption For Histon, High Street C1965

We can see of Wightmans' hardware shop, and on either side are the garage's petrol pumps.

Caption For Trumpington, Anstey Way C1960

At first glance, this row of modern shops, named after the local Anstey Hall, has not changed since 1960; but closer inspection reveals new tenants in the shops, larger trees and flower beds, and more

Caption For Willingham, High Street C1955

A barber's shop has replaced the radio shop on the left, and the Willingham Auction Rooms now occupy the adjoining building.

Caption For Skegness, Lumley Road 1899

Across the road James Barlow, 'family grocer and provision merchant,' had the biggest food shop in the town; from the open doorway an appetising smell of ground coffee drifted into the street.

Caption For Daventry, High Street C1965

The Co-op have modernised their premises from the original three shops (a baker's, a grocer's and a butcher's) to a modern supermarket.

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 Ampthill, Dunstable Street C1955

Dunstable Street housed most of the 'household' shops in 1955 - the situation has considerably altered since then as the town has expanded its boundaries.

Caption For Petersfield, High Street C1955

The right of the picture shows Rowswell's sweets and tobacco shop and it is still there.

Caption For Winchester, High Street 1906

But the main shop had become that most delightful of institutions—a traditional sweet shop.

Caption For Sidmouth, Fore Street 1904

The town's busy shopping street brims with traditional small shops with multi-paned frontages and painted signboards.

Caption For Crowland, The Trinity Bridge C1965

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.

Caption For Earlestown, The Parade C1965

The large central premises have taken the place of some old one-storey shops; the new butchery department and offices take the place of a small brick hutment shop with the addition of a butcher's

Caption For Basildon, Whitmore Way 1961

The Redgrave Road area of Vange did have a few pre-New Town shops near the Bull public house in Bull Road, and were reasonably near other old shops, which were mainly on the A13 road at Vange and Pitsea

Caption For Sutton, High Street C1965

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

Caption For Kettering, Silver Street C1950

Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background.

Caption For Horley, Station Road 1905

We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop. A

Caption For Liverpool, Church Street C1905

We are looking up Church Street from Lord Street, with the fascinating shop, Bunney's, on the left.

Caption For Shaw, Market Street C1950

Most local needs could be found on Market Street, with its stone-fronted shops.