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Delivery boys loiter outside Hawkes' tile-hung hardware shop. On the right is a smart brown stone and granite building, characteristic of the locality.

Wares are displayed outside the shops, and shopkeepers, with their aprons, are among the crowd, and a boy stands with a hoop on the left. At the street's end is the Cornish Bank.

It was cheaper to shop in Tunstall than to go to Hanley by road, as there were three toll booths to get through.

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

The Romer Arms pub is unchanged, but the Daventry Co-op Industrial Society shop (left) has been rebuilt as Newnham Stores and post office. The tree on the right was replanted in the 1980s.

Across the road, the first house no longer offers bed and breakfast, but the second one has become a guest house and tea shop.

London Road and the High Street were the main shopping areas in the early 1900s. The roads were still made of compressed dirt, and motor vehicles were uncommon.

A view taken from the junction with Grosvenor Road which shows some of the firms in business in the early 1960s.

In the middle is the hanging sign for the Three Horse Shoes, which closed about 1968.

The new Broadway and the shops proved immediately popular, and linked through with the outside market. The Coppice can be seen in the distance.

At the western end of the High Street we see the shops of the smaller retailers and specialist craftsmen.

It is more than likely that as a Bromley town resident she bought her bread from the Hovis bakers, right, or visited Wymans shop nearby.

These are few of the popular village shops which provide everything that the locals and visitors require.

Note that several shops have awning to protect the stock in their windows from the sun.

You would not imagine from this picture that this area is dominated by caravans and seaside souvenir shops. In 1927 Malcolm Campbell achieved a land speed record of 174.88 mph on Pendine Sands.

In the later years of the last century Blandford became the delightful shopping centre it is today.

Still on view here is the home of Jeffrey Hudson, the world's smallest man, who hopped out of a pie to amaze Queen Henrietta, wife of King Charles II.

A little further down is F Ward the boot maker's shop.

The grocery shop here on the left, popular for children's sweets, was run until 1952 by Misses Gambol and 'Sniffy' Baker.

The photograph shows the present owner’s mother (on the right) standing outside the camp shop.

The shops have been considerably smartened up. New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.

Paternoster Row, on the right, was once a fashionable shopping street patronised by Pepys and his wife.

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

This must be the most visited and certainly the best placed souvenir and refreshment shop in Cornwall, just a stone's throw from the tip of Land's End.