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The square and its side streets are full of fine old houses and shops, along with exceptional Georgian properties.

This shop, in Manchester House, also acted as a registry office for those seeking domestic servants.

Its products were shipped to Yarmouth on barges capable of carrying several tonnes of material. This picture was taken just before shop closing time, for it looks unusually quiet.

Bold Street was for many years an elegant and elite shopping area. Here, taste and refinement were more important than price. We can also see St Luke's Church at the top of the street.

On the left all the buildings are timber-framed, although several have later brick frontages: for example the grocer's shop, now Gavin Ashley's, is dated 1835.

In the distance, on the west side of the green, is the village shop seen in view C205017. The pair of cottages at the far left are dated 1870.

Both the pub and the nearby shops were always useful to the increasing number of people who used the transport links here.

The building was occupied by Halfords, and is now the Oxfam shop. The two low buildings next to Redwoods have had a wide range of uses, from nurseries to restaurants.

The wall to the United Reformed Churchyard is on the right, and beyond is a terrace of three shops with flats over which was built about 1910. The rural calm of this view has long gone.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

A V Powell's fruiterer's shop is built in a curious style, with an arched corner entrance somewhat in the manner of a church hall or theatre.

In the picture the Post Office has signs advertising tobacco and cigarettes fixed to the shop front, with an Esso paraffin sign further along. The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

Babyland beyond was the new name for Trinder's shops - they sold not only prams, but also bicycles.

It is an evangelical church, and the present clergy are noted for taking their message out into the nearby shopping centre.

This view looks across to the general store and post office; its clock, inscribed 'Weale's Coal Order Office', and Howard Weale's shop sign both survive.

However, the two post-fire Victorian buildings are complete, the one nearer Smith's the post office (today it has a 1954 stone-framed shop front).

It is not a busy day in this photograph, and the shop awnings, deep shadows and the light summer dresses all suggest a very hot day in post-war Wales.

The stone-fronted houses match the shops with their sturdiness and `built to last` qualities.

The tall house on the right was the Manse - it became a shop in the 1930s. The white building behind the RAC sign (right) was at one time the Master Tanner's House.

Shopping and luggage up to 56lb in weight was carried free of charge; over 56lb it was 1s per cwt.

The fine half-timbered corner premises that in the 1950s housed Fawkes Stores is now a clothes shop.

But the stalwart is the pony and trap waiting for 'Milady' to finish her shopping in the household goods store on the right.

The welter of advertising and shop display signs along the left-hand side of the street bear close examination. Cross's Drug Store makes a feature of its sale of Bovril and teeth.

Notice the small row of cottages on the right with its rendered roof and catslide dormers; the traditional shop fronts; the plain render; and the sash windows.