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The manor house is just out of sight on this side of The Black Lion, and is now a chemist's shop.

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

Behind Ken Pett's green post office van on the left of the picture, you can just see the remains of Norman Burton's shop which burnt down during the early hours of 6 January 1948.

Under the Griffin Hotel signboard, and in the midst of the dominating chain stores and offices, Jackson's barber's shop still shows a traditional striped pole.

The shop premises and house on the left-hand side of the picture have been demolished.

Shop fronts and building façades have been improved. Many have been refurbished and freshly painted. F W Woolworth has given way to Keymarket - an early supermarket chain.

Under the Griffin Hotel signboard, and in the midst of the dominating chain stores and offices, Jackson's barber's shop still shows a traditional striped pole.

Under the Griffin Hotel signboard, and in the midst of the dominating chain stores and offices, Jackson's barber's shop still shows a traditional striped pole.

The corner shop advertising Tizer is now a house.

Most of the buildings on the left survive, with the pantiled building behind the white cottage much altered and now the village shop, 'Ram News'.

House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque inside the store) and Joan Burns, formerly a dress shop

The sign over the shop front by the window is advertising cigarettes. The premises returned to being a sub-post office in 1996.

The parish church is on Horebeech Lane, a turning a little to the south of the shops in view H329029 (on pages 64-65), and dates from the decade after the railway arrived.

L T Gamblin's village smithy with the cycles leaning against it has gone the way of most forges and is now a shop, Poppy's Delicatessen, while the post office is now the Beauty Gallery and has lost

Following the demolition of the bridge one of these lanterns is said to have been briefly used as a sweet shop on the road to Chester.

A century ago, West Burton was a lively farming village with a market and many shops. The villagers bought the green from the lord of the manor in 1969.

There are cafes, souvenir shops and workshops for the famous serpentine stone which became popular in Victorian times.

The building was later transformed into shops, but has now gone. Its replacement, the Railway Hotel that we see here, was built between the wars at the Station Lane junction.

extreme left is the Cricketers pub, while Briant's general store (centre left) became Rice Stores after the Second World War, and is now a chic interior decorator's emporium called, appropriately, The Shop

Typical of this type of development, a parade of useful shops is included for the convenience of the new residents.

It has more recently succumbed to the demands of Mammon – it is now a bridal shop.

Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right). The street nameplate, of which several survive, is a peculiarity of Stroud.

Beyond the Singer Sewing Machine shop is Collins' stationery business (right). In the 1920s and 30s Walter Collins printed a well-known series of sepia postcards of the town.

It is also the source of the River Axe, which powered the nearby Victorian paper mill, now also a museum, restaurant and shop.