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The shop with the Senior Service canopies (right) belonged to Dorothy `Dolly` Dowsett. She sold sweets, stationery, records, toys, ice cream, and the ever-popular `fancy goods`.

On the left is the celebrated timber-framed 16th-century range of shops and dwellings built on the west side of the bridge.

The one-time butcher's shop was, at the time of this photograph, an antiques shop. It would have been known to H G Wells when he was a boy at the nearby stately home, Uppark.

What was the Electric Theatre has now been converted into shops and offices. Notice the small windmill above the shop on the right of the picture.

Mr Brooks' grocery shop has been gone for many years now. The River Meon still threads its way through this delightful village to the sea.

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.

This view looking back towards the Greyhound shows the High Street before the major developments of the 1980s and 1990s.

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

Here we see the west end of the cathedral; Robert Lofts, decorators and plumbers, beyond, is now the cathedral shop.

Here we see a parade of modern shops - on the left outdoor furniture is displayed outside a shop.

Fields Antique Shop passed into memory in the early '80s and a new retailing form took its place - the Eight until Late shop, this being its latest incarnation.

T T Prynn's grocery shop is on the far side (centre) and the Central Stores, with the large awning, is on the right. Only the former survives today as a shop, now selling gifts.

These shops serve an outlying part of Corringham: they are the usual mix of grocer, newsagent and hardware shop.

Many of the shops on both right and left had only recently been, or were yet to be, converted from private dwelling houses.

This shopping centre holds three large stores, over 40 shops and parking for 800 cars. Yet it has been slipped in behind the frontage of the High Street without any disturbance.

The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

William Seward, a major businessman in the town during the early years of the century, built a new boot and shoe shop in the High Street in 1901 and followed this up with other new premises in

As can be seen in this picture, Lymm was well provided with shops. However, many of the county's hamlets and smaller villages were heavily dependent upon visits from retailers operating mobile shops.

Maynscroft restaurant and café and the adjoining William's cycle shop (right) closed shortly after 1955 and became dwellings. The Queen's Head closed in c1990 and is now a restaurant.

On the left is the corner of the shop, with its penny bubble gum dispenser. The former agency for the County Fire Office is Rous's cycle shop (right).

This marvellous scene shows a Wrexham that has since lost some of its unified Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes with its banks and traditional shop fronts.

This shot was taken at the southern end of Market Street, which leads to that area of town that was traditionally the main shopping centre.

Today the varied selection of shops down this street includes a ski shop. Havant Arts Centre and Havant Museum are also to be found here.

Sheaf Street did not survive modernisation and the buildings on the right, as far as the Dutch blind over the shop window, were swept away for the modern Foundry Walk shopping arcade.