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One or two shops in Broad Street have retained the Victorian livery provided for them by the film's set designers.

However, the shop has a Welsh slate roof, despite being a stone building. Perhaps it was originally thatch, then replaced by slates, and the dormer window added.

Its neighbours include The Cabin newsagents, and a second-hand furniture shop.

Unique to the city of Chester, the Rows are a double tier of shops that are thought to date back to medieval times.

Today St Peter's Square is home to several coffee shops as well as the new Emsworth library, a butcher's, and a baker's that makes delicious cheesecakes.

The shop window has a display of boats and a poster asking 'When will Alec Rose arrive?'

The shop on the Old Bristol Road to the right is now a wholesale ice cream and frozen food supplier's.

This famous Watson Fothergill building was to remain for only a further 14 years before being replaced by a faceless shop.

The buildings on the right are much the same, although Woolworth's has been removed to make way for the entrance to a multi-storey shopping centre called the Darwin Centre.

Behind them the Queen Anne façade of the White Hart hides the fabric of a Tudor building, while the structure housing Babbs footwear shop is not so bashful.

Kingscote on the far left is dated 1892, while the two gables in the middle distance, with the shop, belong to a U-plan house with a date stone '1688', but much altered.

The last to go was Freeman & Sons, a tobacconist and newsagent's (left), which is now a card shop.

Lealholm Crescent is the service road in front of the parade of shops.

The cyclist is passing Mrs Davy's grocery and draper's shop at the corner of Parsonage Hill. Beyond the railway-like gate is the blacksmith's house.

One of the town's main shopping areas, Cricklade Street is also home to the Brewery Arts Centre, which opened in 1979.

By the 1980s, the market and the linear shopping area in Marlowes were dated and losing trade.

To the right are Groves County Clothing and Outfitting Store and the shop of P B Whittingham.

The shop awnings and broad-brimmed hats provide welcome relief from the glare of the sun as pedestrians stroll up and down to the seashore.

Bournville Cocoa can be seen advertised in the window of the local post office and stores - a reminder of the days when the village shop was an integral part of the community.

This view of Matlock Bath is taken from the station on the Midland line, and shows the beautiful setting of this Derwent-side village.

Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised

It now has one-way traffic, but little has changed here except that building societies and estate agents have taken over the shops.

Fred Dickinson , newsagent and tobacconist, owned 'The Lile Bacca Shop' (left). Jutting out across the street is the sign for Weston Bros, who called themselves 'The London Tailors'.

Here we see it at a time when the shops catered mostly for local fishing families. Notice the horse-drawn cart and the absence of much other traffic.