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Bustling School Road has long been lined with shops and houses. There used to be an old forge here, with a shed used for destroying unwanted horses and ponies.

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

Notice also the sign saying 'Machine Bakery' on the baker's shop to the right.

Still the principle street for shopping, Briggate's retail outlets included Henry's, Fosters, Paige & Co, and Boots.

A shopping parade developed on Stanley Road at the Shacklegate Lane junction. Palmers, the cycle shop, has been there from the start over a century ago.

It was later moved to the triangle in front of Groom's shop in 1904. The Top Shop has gone, but the stone remains.

The northern end of New Road, with its spacious up-to-date villas, catered for the shop-owners and factory managers.

The shops are still there, but all have changed owners.

Duncan Street was at the lower end of the development, and never had the most attractive shops. Nevertheless the upper stonework contains some remarkable carvings.

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting.

Note the soldiers marching down the road side by side in the centre of the photograph, just to the right of Craster's corner shop.

The Apothecary's and Shetland Wool shops look most inviting, with their charming windows.

In the distance are a number of shops, including the Eskimo.

Linton had a regular market from the Middle Ages, and it was the last place outside Cambridge to maintain one, but it came to an end around 1860, supplanted by its shops.

The Victorian drinking fountain at the far end of the Market Place was given to Wallingford in 1885 by Alderman Hawkins, who ran a draper's shop, Field and Hawkins, in the town.

They remain virtually unchanged, but away to the left is now the Castle Mall shopping centre.

Some shops have encroached into this road.

This view shows a classic stationer's shop during the Edwardian era. The display of stock cascades over the frontage - there are local prints.

Moorsholm's one village shop is shown here on the right. The High Street becomes Freebrough Road and leads out on to the

The centre of Basildon has served the local community well since the 1950s, and remains a popular place to shop.

Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived.

Also on the left, outside the shop to let, we can see a Stead and Simpson delivery cycle; Stead and Simpson were an early chain store selling boots and shoes, and they were here until the late 1990s.

Between King's Square and Pavement, the Shambles were once known as the Fleshammels, or butchers' street; in this picture several of the late 13th- to early 14th-century shops were still fulfilling that

The rather solitary buildings are now part of the urban sprawl that characterises every shopping centre.