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The interior of the church has been recently restored, complete with a coffee shop, and is a wonderful example of just how well modern interpretations of ancient buildings can work.

In the 1950s and 1960s, The Radio House of Odiham, selling electrical appliances, TV and radio, occupied the former shop, which has now been converted to a private house.

With the removal of both the main shopping and administrative areas of Runcorn some miles away these photographs show a town that, in the last 40 years, has changed enormously.

Taylor's Drug Store signboard is almost as big as the shop premises.

One of the notices outside this small village shop, now closed, is advertising a garden fete.

Few traffic controls are in evidence at the southern end of the shopping area in about 1960.

It was a merchant's house with shops on the ground floor and the hall and chamber on the upper floor; the hall was heated by a stone fireplace above the doorway.

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

What an unusual combination of goods the trader is selling in the third shop from the right: fishing tackle and fireworks! Today this large town by the River Medway looks very different.

This was itself demolished in 1979 and replaced by shops.

Loading outside the Co-op is a mobile fish shop.

It was in Tong that he buried Little Nell in his book 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and so immediately gave rise to a thriving local tourist industry for visitors to see her grave.

The Crook and Shears on the left is still trading, but the shop and coal yard on either side of it have closed.

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road

The shop offers an alternative to alcohol by offering teas and snacks, in a time before pub food was the norm.

In the southern suburb of Redhill, this line of bijou Victorian houses and shops developed alongside the tree-lined common, overlooked by the formidable presence of St John's Church (background).

This photograph of the town shows the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian buildings and shop fronts.

The Cock, run by H Painter, has a later door case, and Peterhouse has a Victorian shop window. The Globe Inn, beyond, run by Mrs Stiff, is 18th-century, but re-fronted in the 19th century.

To the left was Victor Last's blacksmith's shop. The church tower has Saxon quoins and Norman windows, with a rare west porch and Lady Chapel.

Newerne Street is Lydney's main shopping area; it has undergone a great deal of redevelopment since this photograph was taken.

From the early 20th century, two- or three-storey properties were erected as guest houses, some also containing shops.

From the early 20th century, two- or three-storey properties were erected as guest houses, some also containing shops.

A point of interest in this photograph is the Farm Shop in the centre of the picture, showing that such agricultural diversification is not such a new thing.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian; in those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.