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We are now seeing a view looking towards the railway station, with many of these shops still in existence today, but with more modern shop fronts.

Girls, perhaps the shop assistants, crowd in the doorway of the post office, while at least one fisherman is walking up Fore Street.

In this view from the High Street, a man sits under the awning outside the Rainham and District Co-operative Society shop, opposite the wine merchant's shop of J Owen Carter.

The shop fronts and the general street scene have changed considerably since this picture was taken. The Poultry Cross is just visible, left of centre. Delivery boys lean on their handcart.

New shop-fronts adorn the premises occupied by Phillips Shoes Limited, DER Television, and the estate agents Locke & Vince on the right, but further along some of the original shop premises survive

Of course most of the shops have changed hands, for example Killwick`s, (pronounced Kill`ick`s) the furniture shop, is no longer on the corner of Station Parade.

The shop on the right is a branch of W H Smith, with the old style of sign standing proud from the wall - some of these still survive on a few branches around the country.

The Victorian shops on the right were among the first to be built in Dorridge, and fortunately their upper floors are largely unspoilt, though they have been re-roofed.

The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.

The shop with the clock, at this date called The Shoe People, still sells shoes. The shop front at Fairweather's next door has been extended across the entire width of the building.

Beside this part of the village green we see a grocer and newsagent's shop by the signpost pointing to Carnforth in one direction, Longridge in the other.

This familiar parade of shops on the A4 was quite new when this photograph was taken. The scene is much busier today, with much more traffic and many more pedestrians.

The few small shops on the right include the Magolia Restaurant , a car hire shop and E Lawrence, a tobacconist's.

Mr Thirkell's butcher's shop with its corner door stands at the junction of the two streets (right), and next to it is Westbrook's newsagent's shop (apparently being decorated – note the man

At number 69, Luxford's vegetable and fruiterer's shop boasts a colourful assortment of local produce, including bunches of grapes.

This bustling scene captures the essence of many small towns in the 1960s before the arrival of multiple retailers introduced a uniformity to almost every shopping street everywhere.

The shops on the south side of the Market Place included (on the left) the tiny Caxton Bookshop. Brent and Collins expanded into the next two shops and offered the latest young men's fashions.

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

On the right are Rayner's, an electrical shop, and Thomas the ironmonger. To the right, the long building is the former 15th-century Guildhall.

The Peacock (centre), named after the owner and not the bird, had a shop, which shut in 1977, built under the jetty in the 18th century.

Woodford Halse Post Office has moved to the electricity shop, while Cundy's, the former post office, is now an empty shop (2002).

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. Opposite is Ixworth Dairy, with a Gothic shop front.

Today evidence of this industrial past has all but disappeared, with the dominance, instead, of plush new shops.