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Thus, close to Oakwood Station this parade of typical 1930s small shops was built.

The parish church of St Mark is in the main part of the village, near the Methodist Chapel, the primary school and the village shop.

The parade of shops (left) proclaims that a once quiet seaside village is becoming a busy township - we can see Ellwood's, the Midland Bank, a chemist, and a newsagent and tobacconist.

The hairdresser's shop of C Moore (straight ahead) has become a restaurant, whose frontage now includes the right-hand window. Is the military jeep (centre) waiting for the horse and tumbrel to move?

Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th- century flint-stone church of St Mary looks down on this spacious square lined with half- timbered Tudor and Jacobean cottages, houses and shops

In the 1940s the shop was the main Avon wool suppliers.

Chaplins, owners of the lorry outside the Joy Shop in picture L20007, carried goods not only for the Southern Railway but also for the Great Western, in whose premises they had their depot.

Chaplins, owners of the lorry outside the Joy Shop in picture L20007, carried goods not only for the Southern Railway but also for the Great Western, in whose premises they had their depot.

The fusion of industry and shopping was usual in the town. Baker & Son, boot manufacturers, have their headquarters next to Pears & Sons, the dentists.

Then as now, one could dawdle on the way to the beach and look at the gift shops or stop for a cuppa, or even have some oysters – an oyster stall is just visible (centre left).

The Cottage on the left, No 81, with the ornate tile hangings, has lost its shop front projection.

On the left-hand side, W Cushen, a silk mercer and undertaker's office, is followed by a fruiterer and greengrocer's, a stationery shop, a barber's, and a fishmonger.

It closed as a pub to re-open, fully restored, in 1987 as a shopping arcade, and the building to the left now has a large Pegasus sculpture attached to it.

The names over the shops - Ivor Griffiths and Williams the tobacconist's, Charles Kay and Birt's Stores - remind us that the Forest of Dean lies between Wales and England, embracing elements

Sarah Springer was in charge of the pints at the George & Dragon; Robert Heaton was the governor of the workhouse; and Hannah Hasland combined running a grocery shop with a drapers.The locals were

The building on the left curving into Bath Street from the Square, with its many gables and ornate shop fronts (now a Chinese restaurant), replaced the Rising Sun Inn, a three-storey timber-framed

This building survives because it is thought to be the premises of Little Nell's grandfather in Charles Dickens's novel 'The Old Curiosity Shop'.

This view captures the austere feel of the 1950s rather well, with little traffic and the 19th-century shop fronts still intact.

All has gone on the right as far as and including the high five-pot chimney stack, but on the left the high three-storey building of the 1890s, once the Chess Vale Temperance Hotel, remains as shops and

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

Working people usually had one set of clothes for work and another for best, and for a trip to the seaside the best clothes came out of the closet - or the pawn shop.

The Brown Cow and the Black Bull, built in 1855, were voted 'excellent', as was Hudson's ice cream shop, which was housed in what was originally the toll bar premises.

The 1793 fountain remains, while the Georgian bay windows to the range beyond conceal Bishop Bekynton's mid 15th-century Nova Opera, a range of houses over workshops and shops built along the

The trades of the Victorian shops were multifarious, and many businesses stayed open from dawn until after dark, sometimes trading as late as nine o'clock in the evenings.