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Giles Gilbert Scott's church of St Nicholas and St Runwald.This replaced two older churches (St Runwalds and St Nicholas), but was itself demol- ished in 1955 and replaced by a parade of shops

On the extreme left of the photograph is the village post office, selling minerals and sweets for the tourists - so does the corner shop in the distance on the right.

The main buildings are little changed in over one hundred years, and the awnings over the shops seem tidier, but the proliferation of signs is messier.

The Devon and Somerset Stores, seen here amongst many excellent shop fronts, has posters in the window advertising Frister Rossmann Sewing Machines at £3 7s 6d and £2 18s 6d.

Dunster's High Street was built wide to accommodate markets, and at this point it once held a row of shambles, or butcher's shops, in the middle.

Union Street slopes steeply down to the sea front and its shops are a delight for browsing.

The buildings are unchanged, but the baker's and the hardware shop have both been closed.

This main street runs parallel to the shore, and displays many of the late 19th-century shops that accompanied its development as a resort during that period.

Next door the village grocer's shop was formerly run by the noted local archaeologist Benjamin Harrison (1837- 1921), who was responsible for the discovery of numerous early flint tools in the vicinity

Once an important and flourishing market on the old coach road, Lenham embodies a fine mix of building styles from medieval through to Georgian in its houses and shops.

The Burton's on the right is essentially the same shop front, although a different proprietor uses it now.

On the extreme right, the Green Man pub sign advertises its car park facilities, with Dunfold's bakery and Hodges the draper's and outfitter's shop just beyond.

Enterprise House, on the left, almost doubled Kirby's shops when it opened. Today a new Royal Oak has replaced the one we see here.

A shop like the one on the left was vital to supply the needs of the holidaymakers when many people travelled by bus or train. The town is well known for its fossil-bearing cliffs.

The shop-front of F and R Younger (left), previously the grocer's P and L E Foxwell, and before that Brown's High Class Stores, which was established in 1812, stands opposite the Philpot Museum (right

The shops on the left are Lewis Bros, Madge Evans, the Dorothy Restaurant and Beestons, the tobacconist's; Wildes, Cash Clohting and Press's, 'the fish and game dealer', are on the right.

Besides numerous shops within the building, there were over 60 butchers' stalls or 'shambles'.

This shot includes Overy's hairdresser's, the post office, Charlton's newsagent's, and (on the extreme left) the Century Cinema. The latter was opened in 1928 by the actress Evelyn Laye.

This shot includes Overy's hairdresser's, the post office, Charlton's newsagent's, and (on the extreme left) the Century Cinema. The latter was opened in 1928 by the actress Evelyn Laye.

Sometimes things don't change - the baker's shop on the left is still selling bread and cakes.

The builder T F Nash was one of three main contributors to the creation of the present shopping centre.

The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

By the mid-1960s the open arcaded ground floor was being used for shops, and the assembly rooms above for Bingo.

The ground floor frontage and canopy below E Reynolds Leather Warehouse sign would soon be ripped out to make way for a hard-edged modern shop front.