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A carved wooden Indian holding a cigar still stands silent guard above one of the shop fronts in this street; it was once used to symbolise to the illiterate that the shop was a tobacconist.

This view looking back towards the Greyhound shows the High Street before the major developments of the 1980s and 1990s.

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

As the town's popularity as a holiday resort grew, Victorian streets and shops spread back from the sea.

The shop with the Senior Service canopies (right) belonged to Dorothy `Dolly` Dowsett.

On the left is the celebrated timber-framed 16th-century range of shops and dwellings built on the west side of the bridge.

The one-time butcher's shop was, at the time of this photograph, an antiques shop.

What was the Electric Theatre has now been converted into shops and offices.

Here we see the west end of the cathedral; Robert Lofts, decorators and plumbers, beyond, is now the cathedral shop.

Here we see a parade of modern shops - on the left outdoor furniture is displayed outside a shop.

Fields Antique Shop passed into memory in the early '80s and a new retailing form took its place - the Eight until Late shop, this being its latest incarnation.

T T Prynn's grocery shop is on the far side (centre) and the Central Stores, with the large awning, is on the right.

These shops serve an outlying part of Corringham: they are the usual mix of grocer, newsagent and hardware shop.

This shopping centre holds three large stores, over 40 shops and parking for 800 cars.

Many of the shops on both right and left had only recently been, or were yet to be, converted from private dwelling houses.

The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

Frost's shop front 1909 Mr Frost's printing works and shop would have been kept busy in a market town like Bridport, producing a local newspaper, bills of sale and stationery for farmers and

The white shop front on the left-hand bend is bedecked with them, and the shop on the near right has a sign for Park Drive.

This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

The parade of shops still exists and the corner shop is still open, but the Post Office sign has disappeared.

On the right, outside the post office selling Park Drive cigarettes, there is an old-style red telephone box, and beyond it two village shops.

Henry Wormwell, a mill and general furnishing engineer, had premises on the corner of Piccadilly, the block of shops just opposite the Town Hall.

The shops on the right are on the site of the Piccadilly shops built by Edmund Hepple using the compensation for loss of use of his corn mill during the building of the railway viaduct

This shopping parade still exists, but Cobley the milliner and outfitter, Gilbert the baker and the bicycle shop have been replaced with more modern outlets.