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The row of shops facing the river include that of A Crowson, 'fancy goods dealer'.

The only big difference is that the cast iron and glass canopy along the mock-Tudor hotel has all been taken away, and there is now only one shop - and it is not Gallone the Italian ice cream seller, as

The establishment on the right is Barton's Restaurant, an offshoot from the bakers shop on St Mary's Street (72309, page 44, right).

The picture shows local shops with a proliferation of signs of all types outside; vending machines are attached to the shopfront.

No longer a school, it was preserved as a frontage to a shopping centre.

The shops to the left of the photograph retain their excellent fronts with stall-boards and timber frames, a sight which has become a rarity in a plate-glass world.

The Red Lion Inn got a new facade on its western side, prolonging its life until a Compulsory Purchase Order forced its demolition in 1973, ready for the new shopping centre and market.

The only big difference is that the cast iron and glass canopy along the mock-Tudor hotel has all been taken away, and there is now only one shop - and it is not Gallone the Italian ice cream seller, as

Sadly it is no more, having made way for a new shopping precinct, although the upper floor façade has been retained.

The new building on the corner of the High Street, with its three large shops and two floors of flats above, can be seen in greater detail in this photograph.

On the right is the three-storey shop of the bookseller and stationer's William Pile, whose interior exuded the rich aroma of leather bindings.

The King's Head has gone for a 1960s parade of shops with flats over, Arndale House, while much on the left has also been rebuilt.

The post office and library is now a shop, the Iron Bed Company, and the telephone kiosk has gone.

There is the usual suburban shopping street mix of timber-framed mock Tudor, neo-Georgian and Victorian architecture.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.

The modern shopping area is dominated by the offices of Eastern Electricity on what was clearly a very warm summer's day, judging by the number of opened windows.

The Dutch gable of the shop front is an architectural feature often seen in this part of the country - a legacy of frequent migrations of Dutch farmers and wool merchants from the Netherlands.

The house with the butcher's shop on the right was demolished in the 1960s for road improvement.

The porticoed and domed building has shopping arcades in its ground floor, Exchange Arcade.

Outside the village store an enamelled metal sign advertises Bluebell Metal Polish.The Sun Inn is on the right behind bushes.The scene is now little changed, although the shop has gone.

This first view shows a remarkably deserted High Street, with evidence of horse-drawn transport. There are impressive gas lights, art nouveau in style, on the left-hand side.

Many shops have changed today, and the Aberdare Furnishing Company store (third from the left) is now B Wise.

G Hilton's grocer's shop (left) was here in the 1960s. Opposite was the post office, whose thatched roof had to be replaced by corrugated metal like many others along that stretch.