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It was replaced by the Hailsham Club nearer the church in order to make way for the Vicarage Fields shopping precinct, which was started in 1965 and opened in 1968.

Beyond are the tall gables and chimneys of the Bury Street School of the 1860s: both it and the hotel were demolished in the 1960s for the pedestrian shopping mall that replaced Bury Street entirely.

By the end of the 19th century, New Street was both the principal business street in the town and the best for shopping and entertainment.This view is from Paradise Street.

This is the busiest and main shopping street in Great Yarmouth. Everything is available here, from wine (left) to shoes (right).

By 1928, modern tarmac was carrying the motor traffic past the village shops on the extreme right.

Loveday and Son, the watchmaker and jeweller's, complete with the clock, still survives on the corner of Baddow Street (left), but the International Stores (right) and many of the other shops have now

Disons, on the right at 25 Potter Street, replaced William Rowlandson's draper's shop which occupied the site in the 1920s.

The corner shop is that of Cox and Humphries, a hardware and sports store, with Boots the Chemist towards the Market Place.

Further down the hill is De Barr's shoe shop. The large brick-faced building on the corner of George Street announces A V Britton, cars and coaches for hire.

The shopping streets were modernised, but parts survived into modern times, when older buildings are more appreciated; however, the suburbs and absorbed villages make the effort of getting into the town

The shop is now gone but the telephone kiosk remains. The taller building with dormers, in the middle distance, is the Sondes Arms, a coaching inn in the 18th century.

The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

The shop on the right, Henry Grimwood's, closed in 1983. All the houses have been restored and the barns converted. The house to the left had pargetting decoration added in 1969.

It is a town with sprawling suburbs and a centre marred by ring roads and the enormous Four Seasons Shopping Centre (1972-76), which demolished much of the northern part of the old town.

Badgers Lair, the cottage on the left, has had its brickwork roughcast and colour-washed and the windows replaced by leaded lights since the 1950s, while the former shop beyond has also been drastically

Ye Olde Harrow Inn back entrance has a bacon shop on the left. The pub has now merged with the Barleycorn on the Buckingham Street corner and is archly renamed the Farmyard and Firkin.

The shopping parade with flats over is unchanged, but the fir tree and the walls to the left have gone for road improvements.

The boot sign halfway up the road on the right is the Golden Boot, the premises of Fred Dugdale, whose shop was equipped with ' a private fitting room for ladies'.

The station moved to Fowey in 1922, and the lifeboat house later became a café and shop.

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still

Howard's fine shop front on the left, now demolished, is now Baines Walk, leading to the 1990s Chesham Town Hall, named in honour of Arnold Baines, a councillor but also an eclectic local historian noted

This view looks north up Church Street with No 15 on the left, a medieval house with a good crown post roof, and on the right the toy shop with the evocative names of makes of toy on its facade is now

The open ground to the right is now occupied by more houses, while the village shop is in the middle foreground on the left.

Behind the town hall is the White Hart Hotel, which was demolished in 1935 and replaced by shops and offices.