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The building on the left is dated 1883, and the two shops have now become offices.

The chemist's shop of J T Terry, with an exposed timber-framed wing, is now E Maynard's. Down the street the King's Head has closed, but retains its Lacon's sign on the wall.

Nevertheless, it is popular with dog walkers and joggers, and provides a green corridor along which people can walk to school, work or shops.

There were around 160 shops in the town centre by this time, and the Development Corporation had turned their attention to providing Basildon with a health centre, and also police, fire and ambulance stations

The shop awnings are down and the men are wearing their boaters. Smartly-dressed holidaymakers are wandering up the slope from the Promenade, perhaps to take a genteel cup of tea at the Royal Hotel.

Bournville Cocoa can be seen advertised in the window of the local post office and stores - a reminder of the days when the village shop was an inte- gral part of the community.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian; in those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other.

Replicas of two High Street shops, a chemist and a tobacconist, can be seen in the City Museum.

Another largish outlet selling teas and coffees was Porters; their shop can be seen at right in the next photograph.

Another view of the Parade, showing Lowmans, baker; Lloyds Bank; Jenkins, newsagent and tobacconist; National Provincial Bank; Dews, children's clothing; and an estate agent.

Union Street slopes steeply down to the sea front and its shops are a delight for browsing.

Replicas of two High Street shops, a chemist and a tobacconist, can be seen in the City Museum.

On the right can be seen the shop of Stephen Randall, grocer, baker, prpvision merchant and draper.

On the right is Merriman's Pawnbrokers, with its leaf-decorated lamp hanging above the shop front.

The heart of the town has all the popular shops together and easily accessible to 1950s shoppers.

The imposing shop premises that were formerly those of J W Bridge, an ironmonger's, with the lead-roofed turret embellishing the corner, still looks attractive.

It is a busy day in post-war Dorchester, which looks almost as though everyone in Dorset has come for their shopping.

Several fossil shops thrive in the town, for this has become quite an industry in Lyme in recent years.

The reconstruction narrowed the street, which once had a row of shops down the middle. To the left is the spire of St Mary's Church.

This street, which was once the main road into Nottingham from the south and crowded with people and traffic, is now pedestrianised and the direct route between the city's two shopping centres.

Before the construction of the town centre, there were few shops in the new Basildon. Initially, just two small Co-ops served the first few hundred inhabitants in the Fryerns neighbourhood.

By the end of the 1950s, outlying shops were competing with the new Town Centre development. Reckitts Blue—advertised on the fence—was a well-known bleaching agent of the time.

By 1955 the old-established butchers, Singletons, had given way to Woodhouse's furniture shop.

At this date it contains Sturgeon's, boot and shoe shop, and the International Stores.