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Bus timetables, an important part of any village, are on show next to the other essential, the village shop.

One reason for Bournemouth’s success as a holiday resort has been that the shops are available if the weather is too wet and windy for the beach.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

Several 18th-century stone facades are apparent in these pictures, and some of the other old houses are disguised by contemporary shop fronts.

In 1932, England was not familiar with today's chemically controlled, monocrop pastures, nor was it a challenge to buy home grown fruit in the shops.

Surprisingly, the shop fronts in the photograph, have, in the main, been preserved, presumably at the behest of a vigilant local council. The street bustles today in the best possible way.

Buildings opposite the signal box have all gone, but some shops and the Post Office with its domed cupola still remain.

On the left is a butcher's shop, whilst a horse waits patiently. On the right is the Great George Inn.

A corner of the village near the church with Ching and Sons' wine merchants, general shop and post office.

All these structures were demolished when the Victoria Shopping Centre was built in the early 1970s.

To its right is a fish and chip shop, which must rely on a good degree of passing trade.

The gable end of the shop visible in the centre reads 'J Bailey, Family Butcher'.

Young's drapery shop next to it is now a bank.

The area has been built up considerably since this picture was taken, but attractive villas still descend the hill towards the sandy estuary, the railway and the pleasant shopping street.

The Dunlop shop is there, but tea-rooms have replaced the White Swan. James Thorpe, wines & spirits is still in evidence, also Hayrs, the grocer. There are toilets on the far right.

At No 23 is Rosa Lewis Cole, confectioner, and next door at No 24 is Wiltshire & Sons, butchers; their grocer's shop is opposite (left) at No 22.

This might be considered to be the heart of the village, with the large building containing a bed and breakfast establishment and a provisions shop next door.

Its elegant houses soon became guesthouses, and are now shops. The billboards for the coach offices on the right advertise trips to Exmoor and the Quantocks.

On the right, the village shop and bus stop, as always, provide a meeting place for members of this community.

The broad expanse of the A24 London Road heading towards Stonecot Hill and Morden is lined with parked cars and bicycles outside the shops.

In the foreground, in front of the Galleon (selling confectionery) and Constance Williams's shop, is a small garden with a telephone box.

It was a merchant’s house with shops on the ground floor and the hall and chamber on the upper floor; the hall was heated by a stone fireplace above the doorway.

of Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping

One theory is that they might well be an echo of the Roman pattern of domestic building: a combination of apartments, workshops, and shops which were the Roman equivalent of fast-food outlets.