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Despite the traffic, the buildings mostly remain; even Field's is still a hardware shop.

The timbered building beyond is a branch of the National Westminster Bank, and the properties beyond that have all been demolished in the interests of building mundane blocks of shops.

The shop has gone, to be replaced by a pair of semis, while the shop on the far right, dated 1885, is now the premises of a cabinet maker and furniture restorer.

This view is flanked on the left by the shop front of Greenwoods chemist's and druggist's shop. We

The curving parade of shops to the left, each with its well-mannered shop front, remains today. The buildings to the right of shot have long gone.

The wonderful historic façade of the shops on the left was unforgivably removed in 1970 for a new shopping development.

The building on the right was part of Skoulding's provisions shop (a different shop to that in the photo above). The dark façade hides an 18th-century timber-framed house.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Opposite the arches and pillars of what used to be Hayman's Pianoforte Warehouse are just visible; the premises are now a gun shop.

Opposite the arches and pillars of what used to be Hayman's Pianoforte Warehouse are just visible; the premises are now a gun shop.

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

Gas lights overhang the crammed shop windows of the timbered building that became Mr Sapsea's house in Charles Dickens' last, unfinished, book The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

In front is a row of modern shops, including a Co-operative store at the end by the truck, which had replaced a row of terraced houses.

The plainer frontage of Roberts' shoe shop is followed by the protruding shop windows of Hancock and Wood, shielded by sun awnings. Next comes the National Provincial Bank (now demolished).

In 1959 a pedestrian bridge (C294083, pages 48-49) was built on the Cooperative side to the rear of the new shops; it was used until 1964, when it was taken down.

On the left, in Rickinghall Inferior, is the bow window of Edmund Kerry's hardware and newsagent's shop. The next house beside The Bell Hotel has been demolished.

It was a high- class shop, and offered many services.

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

In the days before TV advertising, every shop blind played its part in announcing the shop proprietor and his speciality.

Further development of the town meant further conversion of houses into shops. Note that Smith Bradbeers has moved to this corner, from Market Street (see page 25).

This shopping complex with its sweeping lines still contains large national shops, and seems unthreatened by the new Ridings Centre, off to the left down Southgate.

On the street corner (left) are petrol pumps, an agent for BSA motorcycles and a wireless shop - the latter is an electrical goods shop to this day.

Continuing along the road containing the spa building, this parade of shops is to be found on the right-hand side.