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For many years the village shop here in Ightham was kept by Benjamin Harrison, who achieved international recognition in the Victorian era for his archaeological work in this area.

Not much else is visible in this otherwise largely shop-less scene before the Great War, when the eastern half of the main road - which would become the A35 with the creation of the strategic Folkestone

Walsham has a long history as a weaving town producing a lightweight cloth; there were also foundries here manufacturing farming machinery and implements, which were sold all over the area from farming shows

The shop front of W H Smith & Son is well-designed, and Barclay's Bank used a reticent, yet confident, typescript on their fascias.

Charles Street has never developed as a shopping street, having always been a rather sad throughway.

No-one could pretend that this scene is one of romantic beauty, but this long row of late 19th-century terraced houses with its excellent corner shop has a well mannered charm.

Originally a narrow street of shops, houses and workshops, the redevelopment and widening of Market Street took place between 1822 and 1834 at a cost in excess of £250,000.

This scene has changed little: the post office has now expanded to take in the neighbouring shop, but the cottages and barns remain.

This street, which is on the periphery of the main shopping area of Stourbridge, has now become rather run down - a pity, since there are one or two fine houses here dating from the 1700s,

The shop on the right is Henry Grimwood's grocer's, run by the family from 1926 to 1989.

About the time this picture was taken, plans by Sheppard Fidler had been accepted for a 461-acre development to include sixteen-storey tower blocks, two shopping centres, schools, community buildings

Most of the buildings have gone, and on the site of the clock tower there is now a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities.

The Freeman Hardy and Willis building still survives, but there has been wholesale destruction of the rest to its left for the Friars Square shopping centre.

At the far right are the wall and railings belonging to the Congregational Church of 1874; its tower was kept when the church was demolished to make way for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1988.

This scene is virtually unrecognisable to today, but it shows just how busy the four roads of Gloucester were in the 19th century. The delivery men in this picture are prominent.

The dominant row of shops has been modernised, but the bus station (centre right), which opened on September 1952, has now been moved a hundred yards to the east.

George Lowe's butcher's shop has pride of place here, next to the emporium of T L Jones. Further down on the left, and beyond the two cars, a grocer sells Lyon's tea and Wills Star cigarettes.

The shops to the right show physical evidence of Luton's ability to graft 20th-century fronts onto 19th-century buildings.

Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.

In 1949 the shops along Hagley Road were all taken. Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

This classic view has All Saints' spire behind the shops with the famous Butter Cross (at least 300 years old) in the middle.

Woolworth's was rebuilt not long after this view was taken; in the process Richard Hicks shop next door was demolished, and all was replaced by a pallid neo- Georgian two-storey building.

This ancient port lost much of its importance when the Exeter ship canal was cut in the mid 16th century, causing shipping to bypass its wharves.

Before it was built, a wooden bridge, which has shops upon it, spanned the river here.