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The shop on the left is Jarman's the photographers. It was designed by William Spanton in 1863 for his 'Repository of the Arts' and was owned by Harry and Oswald Jarman from 1901 to 1962.

Woolworth & Co (right) also moved from the High Street into the Waterside Shopping Mall until March 2004, when they closed down.

Chapman's the shoe repairer's (left) is now Rutland Fishing; next is now a book shop, and then comes the Royal Restaurant. Sidney Hudson the baker has been replaced by Simpole Clark, fine foods.

Banking premises have started to squeeze out independent retailers, while the Woolworth store heralds the era of bargain shopping.

Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants).

Halfords, the cycle shop, had to compete with at least three other cycle retailers. They sold bikes on hire purchase at 2/6 a week.

There are very few shops along the canal side now. However, there are a couple of pubs still in business, the Ship with the sailing ship pub sign and the Sun with a mounting block outside (centre).

To the left, Mark Mitchell confirms his claim as poulterer judging by the chickens hanging outside his shop and the cart loaded with baskets and hampers waiting outside.

On the right is John William Hodgin's draper's shop, which was earlier the post office and run by A Blackby.

There are very few shops along the canal side now. However, there are a couple of pubs still in business, the Ship with the sailing ship pub sign and the Sun with a mounting block outside (centre).

This is a close-up of the many and varied shops that graced Fishergate just a year after the first Preston Guild of the 20th century.

All of this was cleared for the new shopping centre and bus station.

The scene is now little changed, although the shop has gone.

preserves much of its Victorian flavour, with its sweeping promenade faced by numerous hotels, its expanse of sands between the headlands of the Great and Little Ormes, its pier, its wide streets and its shops

The left-hand house (on Church Street) was William Hole's baker's and confectioner's shop with an entrance from the front of the building. The bakery was situated in the yard behind.

A whole world of corner shops and little communities was disappearing, but what was the alternative?

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

The assistant peeps out of the shop, and there are two other ladies sitting in the first floor window, keeping an eye on the goings-on.

A Worthing Directory for 1919 records the three visible shops at ground level (on the left of photograph 68989) as Colin Moore, a perambulator depot (behind the balustrade), Ivens, Kelletts and

The risk of being hung or shot failed to deter the smugglers, pursued by patrols of gun-carrying men until the for- mation of the Coastguard Service in 1822.

Yet in 1951 there was a coal shortage that led to all shop windows being blacked out just a few years after the Second World War had demanded the same treatment!

The grand edifice was gutted and used as a car-park before its demolition in 1977 to make way for the St Enoch Centre constructed in 1981-89, a vast shopping complex which looks more like a railway

The bus in the middle foreground shows its destination as 'Vauxhall Works', the town's major employer in 1965.

Chapman's the shoe repairer's (left) is now Rutland Fishing; next is now a book shop, and then comes the Royal Restaurant. Sidney Hudson the baker has been replaced by Simpole Clark, fine foods.