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Austin's Library is now the Sue Ryder charity shop, Allsworth's ironmonger's, owned by Harry Hole, and immediately beyond, the Edwardian world of Martin & Triggs, Outfitters.

In his later life he successfully farmed and grew fruit on his land, and during the Second World War sold his produce from his own shop.

Although the window might be Spartan, no shortage of signs advertise the shop's presence.

By 1903 the George and Dragon (of the Commercial Hotel sign) looks directly across the road at its rival, the now relocated Dunlop Temperance Hotel (above the Fry's Pure Cocoa signed shop window).

On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

In return for granting permission to the GWR to build the line across his land, local landowner George Frederick Muntz demanded the provision of a station: houses and shops inevitably followed.

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.

These shops were built in the 1920s, and look much the same today.

The shop on that corner was one of the most well-known in all Fylde: Richards the ironmonger's stocked everything that a farmer might need, plus a wide range of domestic articles.

Next door to Gillhams' gifts and stationery shop (left) is the Cadena Cafe with its first-floor oriel window, which opened at the turn of the 20th century.

Here, a horse-cart loaded with barrels and bales makes a delivery to an ironmonger's shop, whilst a boy leans against a hand-cart.

The town's main commercial institutions and shops occupied many of the elegant three-storey buildings along Fishergate.

The building on the corner houses two large shops, a 'high class' grocer's and, next door, a confectioner's. Opposite is the post office, with a pillar box outside.

There are varied shops, good pubs and a fine church housing old paintings of the Hobart family and of the builder who constructed the church in 1496.

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

Village shop and parish church form the heart of this cliff-top village. Walls and houses are built of whole flints.

Beyond is the quirky 1830s St Nicholas's parish church, now with the very modern Podium Shopping centre to its right.

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.

Started in 1810, it has now been converted into Stamford Walk shopping mall.

On the left, in the open site, are now 1970s shops and a large Co-op supermarket.

For about 200 years its main industry was rope making, which was started by Thomas Burfield; his shop was in the High Street.

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

Today, the delightful mixture of medieval half-timbered and Georgian houses are mostly craft and antique shops, catering for the tourist.