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The post office/shop by the Morris is still there, along with the Jubilee Hall, opposite, which was built for meetings.

The building was extended to the right in 1980, and shop fronts were inserted on either side of the imposing, now central, entrance bay.

Tom's, the painters (right) later became Mrs Tink's sweet shop.

The Original Bakewell Pudding Shop is located further along on the right hand side. Stewarts Clothing Hall is the major building on the right.

A church, shops and a village club all followed.

In the yard behind is a blacksmith's shop. The barn on the corner has just been thatched.

Just behind the 'Keep Left' road sign there is a shop called The Fifty Shilling Tailor (left); a suit for fifty shillings would be excellent value – that translates as £2.50.

The turrets, beyond the barber's shop, decorate the United Reformed Christ Church, which was built in 1865. The tall chimney rises above Crampoaks Mill, and was demolished around 1960.

The post office with shop is the former school house (1858). The village school was on the right through the little gate.

Note the bubble car for inner-city shopping.

The Peterborough Co-operative drapery department (right) became the Gas Board, and is now a card shop.

The complex included 15 shops. The tall glass tower on the left was removed in the 1950s.

The shop next door still has a Cadburys chocolate advertisement on the window. Beyond the cars is the Baptist chapel of 1854. Opposite is Cabon & Son, a hairdresser's.

The parade of shops, right, has been demolished but those beyond have reverted to private houses.

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.

Away from the boisterous life of the river, Cheyne Walk, with its narrow, balconied houses and modish shops, was a haven of gentility, dedicated to refined if somewhat Bohemian pursuits.

An advertisement in Mr Ballard's shop on the right promotes footwear by telling us that 'by wearing these boots corns disappear'.

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.

About 200 years old, the hotel stands next to a fully working blacksmith's shop. To the rear of the photograph, we can see the lychgate to St Mary's church.

The town's premier shopping area still exhibits the same charm that is evident in these pictures. The photographer's viewpoint in both instances is now the entrance to a new piazza.

There are still ample shops, cafés and restaurants here, and most of the buildings still exist. Car-parking facilities have been provided. The memorial column to Henry Bell can be seen near the pier.

The lean-to extension on the right served as the village shop when this photograph was taken.

At this time, it is one of the main shopping streets in the town. At the far end on the left is the Ancient House, with its unmistakable overhanging upper storey.

For a few pence this old man walked the fashionable shopping streets of the West End proferring his handbills. On the wooden palm attached to his hat Renovo have printed their sales slogan.