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Dressed stone walls, bay windows on the cottages, a corner shop, two early television aerials and motor traffic indicate that times are changing.

Only two things were excluded from this village - a pub and a pawn shop.

On the left is a small shop, now an accountants' office. The pillar box is now further down the High Street. In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road.

Amongst the shops on the left are the Bazaar of the Misses Parsonson, Robert Joy's carpet warehouse, John Payn, a stationer's, and James Read, a furniture dealer's (now Boots).

The gabled house was built in 1912, but it lost its circular window when the shop front was extended in the 1960s.

This view gives a good idea of the village's architectural mix, with older stone cottages with thatched roofs, mid 19th-century cottages with sash windows and slate roofs, and to the left of the shop (

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

H Block, housing the press shop, is the nearer building. Note how wartime camouflage paint is still visible; it remained so until at least the late 1970s.

On the left-hand side, W Cushen, a silk mercer and undertaker's office, is followed by a fruiterer and greengrocer's, a stationery shop, a barber's, and a fishmonger.

In the 1960s it was a village shop, but that now has closed. Further up is Crabtree Farm, built on the site of six burnt-out cottages in 1733.

Built in 1858, the arcade is a fantastic example of opulent Victorian architecture, with some original shop fronts still surviving.

His son opened the cycle shop in Malden Road in 1921on his return from service in the First World War.

Goathland, also on the popular North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which carries 200,000 passengers each year, has become a haven of tea and souvenir shops.

The bow- fronted shop next door used to be a snack bar but in more recent years became a saddlery, an estate agency and then a recruitment agency.

Beyond, the shops have gone too, and the building is now Cyclops Cottage. The Swan pub is late Victorian, but it fits in well.

So, Wilmslow became a thriv- ing mixed community and the shopping centre for the whole area; more of a town than a village.

On the right is Eastwood's musical instruments shop — it appears to be on Briercliffe Road, but it is actually at 119 Colne Road. The sunblinds protected the various instruments from sunlight.

Chaplins, owners of the lorry outside the Joy Shop in picture L20007, carried goods not only for the Southern Railway but also for the Great Western, in whose premises they had their depot.

The setting is not as good as it was in the 1890s, for the houses to the right, out of view, were replaced by awful 1960s shops with offices over.

Ye Olde Harrow Inn and the two- storey shops beyond went in the 1980s, but the tall three-storey brick building beyond of 1897 survives.

The precursor of Rhyl's amusement arcades, it advertised '... theatre, ballroom, restaurant, waxworks, winter garden, underground canal with gondolas, arcade of shops, zoo, sideshows, all provided on a

We can see part of the old post office, now a heating and plumbing shop (left), and the entrance to the precinct on the right.

On the right are the National Provincial bank, the Alliance, and the mock-Tudor front of Henley's children's shop, which lost a gable width in 1891 when the Alliance was built.

Regay the cleaners and dyers have their van parked outside their shop (left).