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Around 1955 these three shops provided locals with all manner of things; meat, groceries, sweets, cigarettes, toys and hardware; there was even a lending library.

Tolley, the first shop, used to produce their own soft drinks on the premises.

W J Seddon was a grocer, a newsagent and other things besides, a very useful shop in a rural area, especially as every time a villager went into Poulton, the Shard Bridge toll had to be paid.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

A number of these houses have been converted into shops to cater for the visitors and pilgrims who flock to this town and visit the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The curving parade remains little altered in 1965, but already shop fronts are becoming gaudy and fascias oversized.

Here we look westward from the Clock Tower, a view taken before glass-roofed arcades were added to the buildings on the right when they became shops.

The obelisk seen in photograph No 33256 had been replaced by the Market Cross before the 1950s, and Broughton's shop was rebuilt in 1904; it is now the Trattoria Sorrento.

The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.

Most of these shops had a long history. Spencer's the stationer's beyond Finkle Street sold postcards, perhaps including Frith's!

The grocery firm of Halsey & Son were still trading from the same premises, but with a modern shop frontage.

At the end of the parade of shops on the right is the post office, and in the distance Broxmore, housing the doctor's surgery, stood on the site of the present Oakdene Parade.

It is sad that with the development of a large shopping centre in Telford town centre, Oakengates no longer attracts shoppers as it once did - even the branch of Woolworth we see here has

The Blackfriars, otherwise known as the South-East Tower, was used in the 19th century as a shop at street level with accommodation above—there was even a small cottage built on top.

The Original Cake Shop in Parsons Street (run by E W Brown at the time of this photograph) was demolished in 1968.

The first shop on the left is the post office – it has now moved. Next door is the Bakers Arms pub; in 1961 it was taken over by Mr and Mrs Calder-Smith.

The shop next door was Crickmore and Savage's, a grocer's and draper's, then Osborn's, and finally Ralling's when it closed in 1990.

The shop next door to it sold fishing tackle— fishing is one of the area's most popular pastimes. The public house on the right, the Corn Exchange, advertises stabling.

In the background, a notice on the shop advertises a 20hp Ford car for hire.

Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.

A 'new style' double-decker bus pulls up at the Library bus stop. Piccadilly Buildings, opposite, were designed to harmonise with the Library.

The weatherboarded cottages are prominent among the stone fronted shops and restaurants, whose rich assortment of goods and services are lavishly advertised.

Next but one is Stead and Simpson's shoe shop and Dewhurst the butchers, then Cleale's garage with its Ford and AA signs.

Some of the High Street shops and houses reveal a Dutch influence, with mansard roofs and ornamental gables. The blinds are down, it is a hot day.