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Today the annexe has lost its pretty little porch and become a souvenir gift shop, and the lawns and flower beds are a car park.

Now known as Moulton College and the Hulcot Centre, it still serves the same function, with the addition of a farm produce shop. Most of the agricultural college buildings date from the 1930s.

The shop under the white blind is now named Something Fishy.

Beyond Brinkhurst's shop is a glimpse of Armstrong's, a wine and spirit business that has functioned in the same building from c1890 to the present day.

This timeless picture shows the quintessential English church and adjoining manor.

Bonnetts the bakers continue to trade from the same shop on the right-hand side of the road, down from the Rose and Crown - it is here that the local councillor, Miss Hettie Skeggs, used to send her dog

Approaching Southborough from Tonbridge, on the right-hand side we have J Martin, the carrier, with a lamp outside; next to him is the butcherís shop of F Hackett, then T Edenborough, a harness maker

The shop to its right became Smiths Garage, later changing to the Trustee Savings Bank.

Fronting the road, beyond the outbuildings in the two previous views, is the 17th-century cottage where the zoo park started some seventy years ago; its outbuildings became the gift shop

This parade of shops, housed in a building displaying the influence of the eastern reaches of the British Empire, suggests a steady trade.

This part of Blackburn Road was a hive of activity with lots of shops.

The corner shop has gone, and Darley's Ales are not available - the hostelry is now part of the Pubmaster chain.

This view, looking north along the High Street which gently and picturesquely winds along rather than following a straight line, shows the George and Dragon inn on the left with its projecting

The Astoria cinema, originally named the Chesham Palace cinema and replacing Harding's ironmonger's shop, went in the 1970s and the site is now occupied by an architecturally undistinguished

Of the shops visible here, none is still in retail use except what was Walton's pork butcher's on the Market Place corner (right). Centre left is Castle Walk.

The bus station was built to incorporate a parade of shops, seen here beneath the canopy. This has now changed considerably.

Delivery boys gather outside the main doors, carrying parcels to and from the city's shops and businesses.

Originally a separate village from Broadstairs and taking its name from the medieval church, this small collection of shops and houses lies inland from the sea.

Here we can see shopkeepers and many of their potential customers posing for the camera outside the shops.

Inside there was space for 43 shops and over 100 stalls. In addition, a fish market offered sixteen choice counters.

A pestle and mortar (still there) proclaims that Mackereth, late Mason, is a chemist's shop.

A door or two up is Tom Brooker's hardware shop. On the other side of the street is the Hitchin Dairy, and the draper nearest the camera is Hawkins.

The awnings over the shop windows next door are more extensive than most modern ones. The railings far left surround the Sacred Heart Convent.

Here we are looking at shops on the side opposite the Parade.