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Once known as Alfred Street, Burnham's main shopping street was an avenue at one time; but the trees were removed to accommodate traffic.

Virtually every shop, hotel and visitor facility was designed or adapted to achieve that end.

The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises. It closed in the 1970s and is now a private house.

The shop and cottages have survived the ravages of modernisation.

Seen from the bridge, most of these buildings survive as cafes, gift shops, and the like. The prominent semi-circular gable on the right in the distance is the famous Roy's Stores.

From 1826 this shop became the most popular place in Gretna for declaratory marriages.

Note the large broomhead, which is now in the Castle Museum, hanging over the shop.

However, Aldershot offers much more than shops. There is an extensive choice of military museums, including two in neighbouring Surrey.

The Edwardian buildings in the photograph have changed little, apart from losing their rather elegant shop fronts.

New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops.

This view of the pier, taken seven years after the previous two photographs, shows that Paignton then had interesting shops; advertisements offered Turkish baths, drinking chocolate, a drug store, cleaners

Today the company has grown considerably - it now has 18 shops in Cheshire and Staffordshire, and employs over 300 people.

The shops on the right were replaced by awful 1960s buildings with coloured panels under the windows. In Silver Street, Battles, next to Stonebow, has also gone.

This is still a very busy and popular shopping area, largely pedestrianised.

The shop on the extreme right has an imposing display of bamboo baskets, chairs and hatstands, and a wide variety of galvanised tinware.

Apart from a few earlier buildings in the shot, all is rather mediocre. Restrained signs and shop fronts and no unsightly yellow lines speak of an almost forgotten era.

Today the name survives, but it is now a tea shop.

Note the overhanging eaves of the shops and houses, characteristic of the medieval street lay-out of York which is still unchanged today.

Forty years after number 79442 was taken, Kerridge's Garage had been demolished, and thes shops (Currys, Meyers, Foster Brothers, Haig Carpets and Piggotts) and flats had been built in its place.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small work- shops, stables

The shop 'Chance' has gone and is now a private house. Outside stands a bus stop.

The shops on the right were replaced by awful 1960s buildings with coloured panels under the windows. In Silver Street, Battles, next to Stonebow, has also gone.

Cynics said that these beaches, visited and enjoyed by many families, were only popular because unlike other beaches in the area, there were no shops, amusements or other attractions where one could spend

Note the decorative lamps outside the shop on the left.