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These houses and shops were built on the old green when the railway cut through the village in c1850.

The village was rebuilt in brick after a disastrous fire; shops, chapels and the school all have slate roofs.

This is the main shopping street of Sleaford, and the Handley Memorial was the ideal place for a set of destination signs.

Both clocks have been taken away from this busy shopping street, but Milletts Army and Navy Store (right) is still there.

The arcade was the Victorian equivalent of a shopping mall, offering undercover shopping and retail outlets on two levels.

It was during this time that most of the wooden cottages and shops along Beach Road became the concrete amusements and shops we know today.

This was in the days when supermarkets complemented high street shopping, and there was still room for the smaller, independent retailer.

The shop in the distance is now a bigger 'One-Stop Shop'.

Here the road is lined with shops, including the rather picturesque row of shops, typical of its period, on the right here - it dates from 1936 and is called Castle Buildings.

This view shows a busy and bustling parade of shops and services.

Continuing along the road containing the spa building, this parade of shops is to be found on the right-hand side.

rather downmarket- looking Fine Fare supermarket with what appears to be a corrugated iron roof has managed to gain a toe-hold, next to the more substantial Linney's electrical appliance shop

Today the whole focus of the shopping centre of Widnes has moved from the area around Victoria Square about a mile away so that it is now centred here and the street has become a pedestrian

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of a shop front, above which is a clock.

The property on the left is of particular interest, because in about 1970 a large section of the older central Middlesbrough buildings was flattened to create the first major shopping mall - the Cleveland

The man on the left is about to enter the shop of Cyril Amey, hairdresser and shopkeeper.

The shop on the left is now an antique lighting shop, while the garage has gone, to be replaced by a clothes shop.

This shop sold knitwear and pottery; the shop name is directed at a tourist market, and the coracle outside the pottery is a further 'prop' to entice customers.

Hewitts, the Free Church of 1913 and the hall beyond were demolished in 1963 and replaced by the tawdry flat-roofed three-storey Sycamore House flats, offices and shops.

J W Ebbs' electrical shop next door was once an ironmonger's, and was run by the father and grandfather of Sir David Frost.

The shops on the right testify to the wide range of services available at the time: Stephens and Johnson, ironmongers; Bateman, forage contractor; Flights Military Outfitters; the Magpie, sweets

Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

The post office that gave this picture its name was based in the building on the left, which was also a village shop.

On the right, Parkinson's shop is a typical grocer's shop in the old style, selling everything from tea to motor tours.