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This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

A bus stop is resited; the Cross Keys is given a face-lift by the brewery; the area around the Cross is paved, and seats are added for the benefit of those taking a rest from shopping.

The terraced walk of the Pantiles, with its row of shops behind a colonnade faced by lime trees, was first laid out in 1638.

Surrounded by shops and inns, the Market Place was the hub of the town for many years. Ornamental gardens were laid out on the old Market Ground in 1948.

In this picture are three shops, including G G Newing Stores, later C G Smith, and Balcombe Stores, the grocer.The young girl pedestrian has little traffic to worry about.

The house in the distance was once the village shop.

The shop blinds have gone since the 1950s.

The upstairs bay window of the shop on the left is no longer to be seen, as the façade has been rebuilt. It belonged to Tower's, who were boot makers.

On the extreme right is Wood Bros, wine merchants, and above the shop there were two flats, both rented at one time by BBC trainee engineers and their fami- lies.

To the right the 'Lyons Tea' sign signifies another shop, of which no evidence could be found.

As such it sees increasing amounts of road traffic to the detriment of the local infrastructure, including the shops in the photograph.

The King's Road was famous for trendy clothes and antique shops; in the 1960s Minis and Triumph Herald convertibles cruised up and down, the pavements thronged with peacock-gaudy young men and women.

This is now a busy junction close to the shopping centre; this photograph gives no clue to the traffic jams that were to become so familiar in the near future.

Mr R C Smith was the site owner, shop proprietor and general repair man, and he lived in the White House. South Road is to the left, and the sea is only one field away to the right.

However, the largest shopping mall in Lincolnshire is nearby, and so is the very useful-looking large indoor market.

Visit today, and see that the pub has gone, and that offices and shops of little architectural merit have come to dominate the street scene.

Taylors (centre) have a double-fronted shop, a sign that electrical goods and electricians are increasingly in demand. There is a recreation ground (right) and some motor traffic.

It contained 80 permanent stalls and shops, plus 23 lock-ups in the basement, served by lifts, for the use of the stall-holders. Market days were Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.

The late Victorian era saw the development of shopping parades.

The late Victorian era saw the development of shopping parades.

As one of four major thoroughfares leading to the Town Centre, and formerly called Tower Hill, Manchester Street's importance was typified by the presence of many privately-owned shops and businesses and

Looking from the Hall (or the Palace Avenue Theatre) through the gardens, we can see Norton's and Welton's shoe shops.

This architecture is not exciting, but very user-friendly: a corner shop with others adjacent, each with their good timber fronts, and on the opposite side of the road The Bell pub, making up a standard

The domestic elements have long gone - shops and pubs now occupy all the ground floors. The gardens and the houses on the left have been replaced by a routine 1960s block, Kingsbury House.