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Dunstable Street housed most of the 'household' shops in 1955 - the situation has considerably altered since then as the town has expanded its boundaries.

The right of the picture shows Rowswell's sweets and tobacco shop and it is still there.

The town's busy shopping street brims with traditional small shops with multi-paned frontages and painted signboards.

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background.

We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop. A line of very tall telegraph poles are topped with pointed finials.

We are looking up Church Street from Lord Street, with the fascinating shop, Bunney's, on the left.

Most local needs could be found on Market Street, with its stone-fronted shops. Many of Shaw`s sturdy stone terraced houses had no bathrooms, and a tin bath is on sale on the left.

But the main shop had become that most delightful of institutions—a traditional sweet shop.

There is a mounting block outside G G William's ironmonger's shop (to the left of the bridge), now owned by Martin Day under the logical name Bridge Hardware. The roof has additional dormer windows.

The large central premises have taken the place of some old one-storey shops; the new butchery department and offices take the place of a small brick hutment shop with the addition of a butcher's

It is now the Catalogue Shop. Next door is the Minerva Printing Works; it later became Lookers stationers, bookshop and printers, and is now a mobile 'phone shop.

It is now the Catalogue Shop. Next door is the Minerva Printing Works; it later became Lookers stationers, bookshop and printers, and is now a mobile 'phone shop.

A carved wooden Indian holding a cigar still stands silent guard above one of the shop fronts in this street; it was once used to symbolise to the illiterate that the shop was a tobacconist.

Here we see the tower of the church after the rebuilding works, showing the change that was made to the architectural style of the top of the tower.

It was one of several bus routes which provided Rainham people with a link to major workplaces and shopping centres.

South Road is the main shopping area in Haywards Heath.

Looking into the lower end of the High Street, this photograph illustrates the wide variety of small shops which continues to serve the Norton community.

The Redgrave Road area of Vange did have a few pre-New Town shops near the Bull public house in Bull Road, and were reasonably near other old shops, which were mainly on the A13 road at Vange and Pitsea

Cheltenham acquired a reputation as a high- quality shopping centre towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign.

There's something for everybody here on the High Street: a stationers, china and glass, the chemist's shop and the opticians.

Before the advent of the car moved shoppers to out-of- town stores, main streets such as this displayed a rich multiplicity of goods, with regional shops trading beside the more well-known

The white-painted single-storey building in the middle of the row of shops originally had a thatched roof and was Irby's only shop, doubling also as the village post office.

This busy street has many shops and cafes to serve both the locals and visitors, but some close for the winter. The shops and houses on the left back straight on to the sea.