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The first shop on the right belonged to Mr Strutt, who sold many things; he also ran a taxi business.

One of the two pubs only opens for a few hours a week, and the only remaining shop, run by the Stiffs since 1900, closed in 1992.

The pedimented building is Carr of York's Town Hall of 1773 built in local Mansfield sandstone; the ground floor meat market is now a shopping arcade, the Butter Market.

Its character is now that of a Victorian industrial town, as this view shows; we are at the main crossroads in the town centre, with Church Street off to the right.

The High Street is distinctly low-key: the terraces of late Victorian shops are augmented by 1930s buildings, as we see on the left, and now several have been converted to take-aways.

Ellis, the baker and grocer (left), is now an antique shop.

Unfortunately, the left-hand side of the street has largely been rebuilt in sad 1960s three-storey flats-over-shops style: no match for the 1930s mock timber-framed parade opposite.

Beyond is the almost inevitable Surrey mock-Tudor half-timbered shopping parade.

Ampleforth's Garage, Austin/Morris main dealers, had been Amos Young's cycle repair work shops - he was also one of the town's tailors!

The hairdresser's (right) with its barber's pole has gone, and so has the Gilbey's Wine sign beyond - that shop is now a modern chemist's.

The lovely old granary on the left is still made up of shops on the lower level. The Tourist Information Centre is also here.

The garage and its roof tea-garden, centre right, were converted to the tourist information centre and retail shops some four years ago.

The two ladies on the left are standing outside Pratt's shop, which according to its signs sells Lyons tea and cigarettes. Across the street is a café.

It is still a post office and the only shop in the village.

Further along the street there are 17th-century thatched cottages, but the closest house is Victorian, with a metal balcony over its bay- window shop front.

The shops themselves were changing. Some retained a traditional aspect. 'Johnny' Marrs was a Loughborough institution.

The double shop-fronts of Miss Amanda Spiller (confectioner through the left door, and milliner through the right) and Mrs Rosa Warren are followed by outfitters Frederick W Best and Ernest R Best.

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north-west corner of the Town Hall.

The Dunlop Temperance Hotel seems not to have survived the First World War and the Fry's cocoa shop on the far right is now Gutteridge's, 'The Modern Tailor'.

Eastcote is a mediaeval settlement; it is only as one emerges from the shopping parades of the 1930s grouped around the underground station into a series of timber-framed vernacular buildings of the 16th

Self-contained, with its own shop (centre), this used to be a detached part of the parish of Gussage All Saints, which is situated in the downlands of Cranborne Chase, but in 1886 it

The higgledy-piggledy row of pubs, shops and dwellings has hardly changed over the years.

The shop is now an off-licence and convenience store.

Out of view on the left is the village, mostly neat former 1950s Coal Board and council houses, and on the right is the main shopping parade along the Doncaster Road.