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The shop beyond, advertising Vitbe bread, has now been replaced by a Quick Save store. Note the motorcycle and sidecar outside yet another shop advertising cigarettes.

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

The shop displaying local views (postcards) and Royal Worcester china (the obvious souvenir) is perfectly placed to catch tourists flocking to the cathedral, the main entrance of which is in College Yard

The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.

Beyond the corner is a shop advertisement for Lyons Cakes. To the left was Rouse's cycle shop, a section of which was demolished to widen the road.

In this view the Freeman Hardy & Willis shop stands on the site of the Old Talbot, and two shops along is where the Golden Lion was situated.

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

Both clocks have been taken away from this busy shopping street, but Milletts Army and Navy Store (right) is still there.

The Arndale House shops opened in September 1961.

The parade of shops at the junction of Reigate Road and Brighton Road has an unfamiliar appearance without traffic lights and the extensive Shell Garage.

Notice that although this is just a small store for the immediate suburbs, this shop also supplied petrol: there are four pumps on the left supplying different types of Esso petrol - Esso

This street of small distinctive shops and handsome 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

The paving slabs on the right have been replaced with a swathe of tarmac, and the ornate clock (left) above Jones the chemist's has gone - the shop now sells floor coverings.

Just below the tree on the left-hand side is a white cottage and shop.

We are now seeing a view looking towards the railway station, with many of these shops still in existence today, but with more modern shop fronts.

The Corner Shop and Station Parade Post Office still provides an invaluable service to residents and passers-by, but an extension has been built on to the end wall for Saab who also trade

The post office that gave this picture its name was based in the building on the left, which was also a village shop. Today there is no village shop, nor a post office.

We are again looking south by Ernest Tyrrell's butchers shop, with Flinns the cleaners next door at No 42, and beyond the next shop is the entrance to King's Garages.

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

It has been claimed, probably erroneously, that it is the original of 'the Old Curiosity Shop' made immortal by Dickens as the home of 'Little Nell'.

The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance.

The WI Hall and George Roger's garage next door are now gift shops. The red brick house next to the garage was already the Pottery Shop when this photograph was taken.

She plied her trade on the river until 1962, when she moved to Salcombe and became a tea shop. She ended up at Truro, where she was used as a florist's and coffee shop.

The shops - Constables, Barkers, Kayes, 'Reliable Fruiterers' and Wallaces - have today been replaced by, amongst others, the ubiquitous Chinese takeaway food outlet and charity shops.