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However, Aldershot offers much more than shops. There is an extensive choice of military museums, including two in neighbouring Surrey.

New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops.

In the early years of this century the village included an apothecary, a butcher's shop with traditional glazed tiles, a forge, dairy, a shoe-maker and an undertaker's.

The horse-drawn carts are parked outside the photographic shop of Hollis Wilkins, which advertises 'Life-sized Heads, Direct from Life'.

We are looking down Penrith's main shopping street.The scene has not changed much since Victorian days, except for the fact that the horses have by now disappeared and have been replaced by motor vehicles

Even in our superstore age, this town has managed to retain a number of little family shops.

The ornate Victorian shop fronts of Dawson's and the branch of the Enfield Co-operative store, on the right, with their elegant lanterns, are in contrast to the stern brick frontages across the

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

Among the town's more famous shops was Biggs, a high-class jeweller, where Queen Mary frequently purchased gifts when staying at nearby Windsor Castle.

Mobile beach huts are lined up on the sand, while the beach shop offers ices, chocolates, tobacco, Kodak films and daily papers.

Some of the buildings on the left further downhill remain, but the street was largely rebuilt in the 1930s suburban shopping parade style.

The poster advertises a military tattoo, whilst on the extreme right is a cycle shop.

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

A village inn, the 1930s car, and the shop all seem to have a timeless feel to them; they stand undisturbed on the outskirts of Prestatyn.

The building to the left is the village shop, which we see in photograph S241002.

It was built in the 1830s by the builder and tallow-chandler Jacob Hamblen to create a direct, if somewhat exhausting, route between his shop and house.

In 1993 this was replaced by the very successful design of the Castle Mall shopping centre, partly built underground below a raised park.

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants. The odd thing is that there are no banks in the village today.

The ground floor now features a plastic fascia, and ugly steel blinds protect the windows when the shops which occupy the building are closed.

On the left is Mr Kerrison the butcher's ornamented shop front, with a refined iron balcony overhead.

Since then most of the retail shops in the picture—as well as the RAF base—have gone.

Mr Collier`s shop (left), with its cheerful assortment of Lyons Maid, Woodbines and footballs, is still fondly remembered.

All the buildings in the foreground have been demolished and replaced by modern shops.