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Just behind the 'Keep Left' road sign there is a shop called The Fifty Shilling Tailor (left); a suit for fifty shillings would be excellent value – that translates as £2.50.

St John's Chapel straddles the A689 between Daddry Shield and Ireshopeburn.

Today, this view is largely unchanged, though the Regent Garage has been swept away, along with the Green Shield stamps it offered.

Before the Great War, Amble was one of Northumberland's smaller fishing ports; the biggest catches tended to be landed at North Shields, Blyth and Newbiggin.

Tesco, then offering the once very popular Green Shield Stamps, has today moved to a larger site. But Beckenham Toys is still in the High Street.

An elegant lady shields her pale skin from the sun with a parasol. Beyond her, anglers cast their lines in expectation and a steamer prepares to berth at the quay.

many of the hallmarks of a medieval defensive work, including 'murder holes' from which heavy weights or boiling oils and molten lead might be dropped during an attack, while the slits below the shields

Daddry Shield is just one of several hamlets that grew to support an ever-growing population within Weardale.

The shops are shielding their goods from sun with old fashioned canvas blinds.

The shop on the extreme left was Simpsons, fruiterers, greengrocers and florists, who gave Green Shield Stamps with all purchases.

It has Celtic and Roman features, and is part of a sculptured shield.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

This astounding sculpture was dug up in 1790 below the Pump Room, and shows a snake-haired Gorgon on Minerva's shield. It obviously came from the temple pediment, and is now in the British Museum.

It has Celtic and Roman features, and is part of a sculptured shield.

On the right is the Town Hall, built in 1902 to the designs of South Shields-based architect Fred Rennoldson.

On the right is the Town Hall, built in 1902 to the designs of the South Shields-based architect Fred Rennoldson.

The shields on either side depict the arms of the Diocese of York. A civic fountain was placed on the bridge in 1880 from which pets as well as people could drink.

Shopkeepers have shielded their goods from the sun's damaging rays with canvas blinds, while the donkey waits patiently.

With Laxton's motto 'God Grant Grace' below his heraldic shield adorning the buildings, the school expanded and since the 1950s has taken over a number of the older buildings in the centre of Oundle.

Most evocative of past shopping is The Fifty Shilling Tailors, a chain that grew up before World War II and originally offered suits for that price.

Around the Market Place at this time were a large number of pubs used by the town's seafarers (South Shields had the largest number of seamen as a proportion of its population than anywhere else in Britain

The battlements have shields representing the Wingfield and FitzLewes families, who paid for the tower in the mid 15th century. The chancel was rebuilt in a very plain style in c1820.

Remember Green Shield Stamps? The garage on the right offered them!

Above the door can be seen their shield of six annulets which, in heraldry are painted black on a shield of gold.