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The company had around sixteen stores throughout Cheshire, and also operated a fleet of mobile shops which toured the rural areas.

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

This busy shopping street has buildings of human scale of the 1920s and 30s, with a prominent well-designed Midland Bank sign now replaced by the anonymous HSBC of the Eastern Banking Empire.

To the left of the war memorial is Boots the Chemist, with its old-fashioned shop frontage. It is no longer on this site.

The billboard that was above the shop has been removed.

The huge advertising signs above the grocer's and shoe shop would not be allowed today.

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

This is the town's main shopping street. Lower down, a canopy over the pavement keeps the Pennine precipitation off the shoppers.

Elcock's, the little newsagent and tobacconist almost hidden behind a forest of newspaper signs and placards, has been replaced by a beauty therapist, and most of the shops either side of the Bugle Inn

The brash sixties shopping precinct is overlooked by its nine-storey block of flats (with some evidently still awaiting occupation according to the sign); the tower of St Paul's Church rises among the

many other towns, the centre of Solihull was redeveloped in the 1960s.Among the projects was a new civic centre designed by H Weedon & Partners, and the demolition of Drury Lane for a pedestrian shopping

Bembridge's shops have always been functional, serving the simple needs of residents and tourists alike.

The shop is now a private house.

Across the road is the baker's shop with a Hovis sign outside.

The middle section of well-remembered shops has now been replaced with department stores. The essence of a modern commercial centre is evident. Parking is at a premium, and it's not even market day!

Winchester's High Street boasts a variety of Georgian, Victorian and half-timbered Elizabethan buildings; some of them still have their original shop fronts and doorways.

Virtually every shop in the picture has since either moved elsewhere in the city centre or closed down altogether: Marks and Spencer moved to New Canal, and Woolworths to the High Street.

The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built. The butcher's, nearest the camera, is certainly attracting window-shoppers. Just to its left is a cafeteria.

The firm's other shop on the Cheapside and George Street junction was also demolished during massive retail redevelopment in the 1970s.

On the left-hand edge of photograph H252061 (page left) we see the shop George Hilton & Sons, which was built in 1932 and designed by Harold Turner (a local architect whom we will meet elsewhere

Shops are still thriving, and one tradesman reckons to sell everything that might be bought in a general ironmonger's.

Note the blinds on the shop windows and the attraction they hold for small boys.

It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.

In its shopping centre the Neo-Georgian block on the left contrasts with the half-timbering of Burkes Parade, but all good quality work of the 1920s.