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The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

Shop fronts have tumbled, and the 'global' names have moved in, as they have in most other large shopping areas.

The houses on the left, by 1901 shops but retaining front gardens, were replaced in the 1960s by mediocre offices over a shop.

This terrace of shops with accommodation above dates from about 1870, and is in an austere style with plain parapets above brick cornices.

Here on a sunny morning the shop awnings are already out, and a shadow lies in front of W & A Gilbey's wine and spirit shop.

Among them are the drapery firm George Spurr, on the extreme right, and the rental shop of Bold & Burrows Ltd.

In the distance we can see the shop of Frank and Albert Blakey, grocers, and the High Speed Gas offices. The grocers' shop has now been incorporated into the George public house.

On the right, amongst the premises visible are Cash & Co, a shoe shop, Olivers Shoes, Lloyds Bank, and one of Tenby's oldest shops, Medical Hall, established in the 1830s.

In the distance we can see the shop of Frank and Albert Blakey, grocers, and the High Speed Gas offices. The grocers' shop has now been incorporated into the George public house.

The shops around the market are becoming dominated by national chains. On the left, for example, are Boots, Foster Brothers and Freeman, Hardy & Willis.

The shop window at No 26, the draper Henry Octavius Bickley (right), contains clothing and parasols.

Note the many shop awnings and the trams further down the street, a reminder of town centre public transport.

In late Victorian Glasgow, Argyle Street, Buchanan Street, Union Street and Sauchiehall Street were considered the places for shopping.

On the left we see the long- established Andrassy's butcher's shop – it opened in 1886. Bradley's butcher's shop next to the stop sign (right) is still trading.

columned Sudbury Theatre of 1815, which remained the Norwich Fisher Company Theatre until 1848, when it became the Literary and Mechanics' Institute; next door is Potter & Jessop's chemist's shop

Everything from the left of the view as far right as the brick building with the dormer was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the deadly Bury Street shopping precinct, which opened in

Here, shopping expedition completed, mother and son walk down Horsemarket Street, passing Sterlings shoe shop on the corner of Lyme Street (right.)

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

This is a typical scene of the early 1900s: when word got out that a photographer was in the area, passers-by stopped and posed for the picture, just like today when TV crews and cameras come into town

In the mid 1950s car owners could park outside the shops and cyclists could leave their bicycles outside the library.

It was now a shopping street, with the buildings of fairly recent date providing commercial office accomodation on the upper floors.

The Co-op (left) was formerly Tanner`s grocery and drapery shop.

The corner shop is long gone, but the clock tower remains.

From the 1920s war memorials appear in the photographs, which also show iron railings sacrificed during the Second World War. What the Frith views omit is interesting.