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Together with an entire street, Newland (right), all were replaced by the 1970s Grosvenor Centre shopping malls.

Mercer Row is a good example, and the Georgian shop window to the right survives intact.

Even the steps and the handrail are still in situ, but the shop window on the right has gone.

This view is virtually unchanged, apart from the loss of the trees and renewed shop fronts. People can still wander down the middle of the road, for it is now pedestrianised.

The less mighty shop building next door advertises Hunt Tailors. We can see a lady shopper out in trousers, which would have been frowned on before the war.

The shop on the right is advertising Player's cigarettes - they probably killed a few people too!

The old Town Cross/milestone still stands on its original site, and a row of shops has been built behind it.

The mansard-roofed building on the left is now a Café Rouge, and the shops are now houses.

This view was taken at the crossroads of Woodfield Road, Barnett Wood Lane and Craddocks Parade, the 1930s three- storey flats over shops.

Beyond the contemporary Warlingham Church Hall are 1920s shops and a bank, which is dated 1927.

Was the Millennium Dome at Greenwich based on Kingswinford shopping centre? Perhaps we should be told!

In 1949 the shops along Hagley Road were all taken. Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

Court has been a particularly successful development, primarily because of its location, just a five-minute walk to either the bus or railway station, yet only five minutes from the Broadway for shopping

This interesting scene at the top of the principal highway through Helston shows the granite classical-style Guildhall of 1839 behind the covered delivery wagon.

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

The parish pump, where the village must have originated in c 1293, is just out of shot to the left of the photograph. The small shop to the extreme right has been converted to residential use.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

About the time this picture was taken, plans by Sheppard Fidler had been accepted for a 461-acre development to include sixteen-storey tower blocks, two shopping centres, schools, community buildings

To the right is Borehamgate House, demolished in 1965 for a shopping precinct.

In the picture the Post Office has signs advertising tobacco and cigarettes fixed to the shop front, with an Esso paraffin sign further along. The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

This photograph shows the old village centre, looking from the Roman Catholic church of St Mary of the Angels. Carnforth Co-operative Society looked after the villagers' grocery needs.

The photograph was taken shortly after the High Street was closed to through traffic; the untidy houses on the left will soon become desirable town residences and shops.

Trees line one side, and telegraph poles the other side of this section of the A2 from Rainham to Gillingham, where Mrs Hall had her hairdresser's shop, E H Chatfield was the confectioner and

There are several small shops on the right, one of which has painted bands imitating beams and a panel of pargetting - only the latter remains today.