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We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop. A line of very tall telegraph poles are topped with pointed finials.

The brand-new tower of the Town Hall can be seen above the far shops in North End, which today is a pedestrianised road.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

The shops on the right were replaced by awful 1960s buildings with coloured panels under the windows. In Silver Street, Battles, next to Stonebow, has also gone.

It simultaneously housed a taxidermist and a saddler before becoming an antiques shop.

Since then most of the shops in the picture - and the RAF base - have gone.

One reason for Bournemouth’s success as a holiday resort has been that the shops are available if the weather is too wet and windy for the beach.

The photograph shows the present owner’s mother (on the right) standing outside the camp shop.

Collins had another shop in Pier Gap.

This view captures some of the domestic feel of the lower High Street beyond the shops nearer Market Square.

At the end of Middle Row stands the house and shop (1877) of George Bailye, tailor and hairdresser.

To the right of the magnificent broach spire of St Mary's is the Victorian tower of St Michael's, now converted into shops. St George's church is just off the edge of the photograph to the right.

Bodiam is located on the River Rother and was once a port that shipped iron ingots and cannon, which were made in the area.

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.

You will notice that the shops there, on the Chester Road end of Birmingham Road, are set back quite significantly compared with those at the Penns Lane and Emmanuel Church end of the shopping

This photograph shows how the traffic used to run diagonally across the Market Place.

In the main street, for example, many of the shop frontages were developed in the last century with little regard to their history.

Making the deliveries was the first foot on the career rung, followed by serving in the shop.

On the other side were the stalls, shops and shambles of the traders.

The closure of the docks at the end of the last century has led to a massive redevelopment of the dock area, with luxury apartments standing where ships once unloaded and men worked long hours.