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The poster on the wall by the tree advertises shipping to Canada and the United States, popular destinations for Cornish people forced to emigrate when the mining industry declined in the later 19th Century

Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser. A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.

It had shut up shop by 1885.

The shops were built in two tiers - it is said that the architect, Donald Gibson, was inspired by the magnificent medieval Rows at Chester.

This was itself demolished in 1979 and replaced by shops.

This is the north end of High Street, which seems to have had an abundance of shoe shops in 1950: Trueform (on the left) was a popular chain for decades, and Olivers (on the right), is still trading today

A very rural Post Office - part cottage, part shop. Note the Victorian post box and the arrow for the Telegraph Office.

The distinctive cafe now houses a hairdresser's shop.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

They built a two-storey shopping centre with two wide malls and covered arcades.

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

time when such places had fewer things to compete with for people's time and money; private car ownership was still beyond most people, television was in its infancy, and bingo halls, bowling alleys, shopping

The High Street was one of the principal shopping areas of the city to be damaged during the air raids of December 1940.

Note the unmarked roads, the shops on the left (D H Davies and M Woods) and the various forms of traffic (there are bicycles and motor cars, and a bus on the left).

The docks and cranes in the distance have been swept away, to be replaced by luxury apartment blocks and new shops.

In the centre of the village, on Affleck Bridge, is the Independent Wesleyan Chapel built in 1874 to serve the Nonconformist industrial workers of the boot and shoe factories.

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

It had shut up shop by 1885.

Coventry has undergone massive redevelopment since the end of the second world war, not only with projects such as the Broadgate shopping precinct, but an American-inspired partly-elevated ring-road

Note also that Buddens tailors shop on the corner of The Square has been demolished and replaced by the London Joint City Bank, established in 1836.

Very little has changed in these shops, which were built immediately opposite Freshfield station.

The shops in Arndale House have changed over the years; they have reduced in floor size and increased in numbers.

This popular tourist area now has shops, cafés, inns and a modern library, and is a favoured commuter town.

Next door is the four-gabled frontage of Thomas Pannell`s fishmonger`s shop.