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This parade of shops selling its goods to potential holidaymakers runs down to the small promenade; the atmosphere here seems refreshingly restrained.

The shop to its immediate left replaced an old house that had been weakened by a detonation during the Second World War. The high-roofed White Hart, along the road, survives to this day.

It is sad that the essentially 1930s character of the shop fronts has been eroded away by plate glass and aluminium.

Shop fronts with their windows bulging with merchandise, and a certain unhurried atmosphere, present a picture of life far removed from the mobile 'phone and computerised urgency of the early 21st century

Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

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.

When Charles Street was widened and extended, a great opportunity was lost to introduce buildings and shopping of quality.

Meanwhile, the residents of Broomedge were being bombarded with adverts for Oxo - notice the advertising hoarding near the parked cars and the poster in the shop window.

The Scotland Road area can be seen in the distance - this was at a time before the impact of the building of the Cockhedge Shopping Centre in the 1980s.

This view from the Lord Rodney Hotel looking towards Central Station shows the increase in road signs and road markings necessary with the growth of road traffic in the 1960s.

The King's Arms, then run by R G Wood, has closed, but the arms remain on the present carpet shop. Beyond is the brick Lloyds Bank of 1896.

You do not see petrol pumps like the ones outside the shop any more. This picturesque village has cottages lining its winding streets, and the trickling sound of water can be heard from the river.

Shop blinds sweep across the pavement, and the shadows show that it is quite a sunny day.

The small shop along the raised pavement on the right advertises 'Thomas's hair cutting and shaving rooms'.

The cottages to the right were at this time home and shop to H Woolley, a saddler, as they had been since around 1900.

Local villagers still make their way to Pershore for their shopping at least once a week.

Nearer to the camera is the gas showroom (with its 'Mr Therm' logo on the fascia), and level with the four-legged litter-bin is Doris Fryatt's sweet-shop.

Deliveries to these shops would be from the access road at the rear of the terrace, though one lorry driver has decided to double-park in the main road.

The ponies have just passed the shop which closed a few years ago. Now the Bee Hive Store and Post Office have been built at the end of the terrace and provide service six and a half days a week.

The drapers shop (left) has a selection of patterns for both dressmakers and knitters in the window. The wrought iron gate survived the last war.

The shop with the thatched roof, here belonging to Mr Rollins, a dyer and cleaner, used to be a bakery. It was converted into cottages in 1931, when the thatch was replaced by tiles.

The house on the extreme left belonged to G J Crofts, who could look down the street and see customers entering his large drapery shop in Lumley Road; it later became the offices of the Skegness Standard

Only fifty years earlier, this street had been nothing more than a dirt track with some third-rate shops.

the Market Place at first sight all looks broadly unchanged, but since 1950 the Bull has been entirely rebuilt in rough replica, and the Crown and Woolpack has had its stucco removed, but the chemist's shop is