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Curl Brothers owned the huge shop on the right of the picture, which was floodlit at night by the eight lamp posts erected on the pavement. Curls was a popular forerunner of today's department stores.

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

In its time it has been a farm, a carrier's business and an antique shop. It was first called Chester House in 1881.

All were demolished in 1998 to make way for the Touchwood Centre, a shopping and leisure complex which opened in 2001.

This shopping parade was built for Shirley's growing commuter population in the mid 20th century, but today it is part of a seemingly endless string of commercial premises along both sides of the road.

It is difficult to understand how such a structure could be allowed to replace decent Victorian shops, especially in a street where many of the buildings are listed, but it was probably a source

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

Shops now line this side of the street.

Older residents of Yardley Gobion will remember when this village had four pubs and five shops.

In this view the Beehive shop and the dormered cottage beyond survive, but the buildings beyond have been rebuilt for Townsends and the Post Office.

In the 1850s, Cheapside was one of the most fashionable shopping streets in London, with a 'mighty stream of traffic' flowing through from Oxford Street to Leadenhall and the City.

created in the 1830s on the site of the King's Mews and a juimble fo decrepit buildings known popularly as Bermuda, Caribee, and Porridge Islands, where the poor of London frequented a plethora of cook-shops

Moving down a short way we see on the left a shop that had stood empty since 1940; it was often mentioned in the local press.

Some familiar names here include Lawley's china shop and the shoe-seller Stead & Simpson, both long-established chains still trading today.

In 1963, a well was found in the premises facing us, then Wendy's Hat Shop. Believed to be early medieval, it was lined with a soft chalky stone, and contained 15 feet of clear water.

The buildings behind the bus have been totally redeveloped, and incorporate a lovely open shopping area known as Golden Square.

The skyline today is radically different: here a few factory chimneys break the skyline, but now large offices and shopping malls dominate the middle distance.

At the left was Jackson's the butcher's, now an electrical shop. The sign below the fourth bow window from the left indicates a café – it is now a furniture store.

Beside the imposing 19th-century bank building, which overlooks the corner of Blackburn Road, rises a naked steel tower, a herald of the monotonous shopping developments that have robbed

Standishgate's mock-Tudor embellishments were added during the 1920s; with the distinctive Burton's building, they lend elegance to the main shopping street.

The ironmonger on the right has taken every opportunity to display the variety of his wares, though the children will almost certainly be more interested in the next shop along where both Chester rock

An Edwardian, steeply-gabled terrace of shops and flats overlooks the dignified stone island War Memorial of 1923, with its stepped approach.

In this view, a tram passes the park with an advertisement for Fox-Andrews' shop in Union Street. Many Frith views of Bath around 1904 proudly include the then new electric trams.

By it is the village shop.