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Sherborne is a charming town of book and antique shops, an essential stop in any exploration of Dorset.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

The Victorian wealth of the town is shown in the fine buildings in this view of the main shopping street, with the Halifax Building Society, which started here, prominent on the right.

The shop is now a house, although Halliday's restaurant is still trading.

Among the areas hit was the Moor, where many shops and buildings were destroyed or badly damaged, including the large stores belonging to Roberts Brothers and Atkinson's.

Grand Parade (right), housing the post office and Arthur Hopkins' butcher's shop, was newly built at the time this picture was taken.

Most of the shops on either side of the inn have changed hands several times over the years. Once an inland port, Botley stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble.

extreme right), ironmongers by appointment to the Prince of Wales, who sold iron bars, rods, hoops and sheets, the Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company, and John Devonshire (fourth shop

Consequently, some character has gone from this village, but there is still a pub, a church and a few shops.

This picture clearly shows Lloyds Bank as the neighbour of the TSB.

John Warton - we believe that is him standing in the doorway - owned The Cheap Shop, an early discount store offering china, glassware, lamps, brushes, wicks, and lamp oil at competitive prices.

The Red Lion (third from the left) and the tobacconist's shop to its left later made way for the new Woolworths. Further on is the Buck Hotel, and further still is the Ship Inn.

By a quirk of fate, the shop is now the local outlet for an international company of travel agents.

The bakers on the right has been badly replaced in the 1960s, while further downhill on the left are the late Victorian and Edwardian shopping parades with flats over.

Since then it has served as an inn, a grocer's shop, a chemist's, a tea room, a community centre and a royal bailiff's residence.

The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well. Chorley Town Hall, with its clock and spire, show up (right) at the north end of the street.

One of the highlights of shopping along Briggate was the glass-roofed arcades, such as the Queen's and the County.

A butcher's delivery boy can be seen cycling down the road, more of the shop fronts are covered by awnings, and a uniformed policeman can be seen on the right.

The Crossways corner shop is using every inch of its frontage to advertise its wares, a practice applied today and yesterday.

To the middle left is the Clockhouse, built in the 1920s; at this date it was a shop owned by G E Bridgeland.

The Wool Hall was incorporated into the Swan Hotel (right) between 1963 and 1965; Tudor Shops are on the left.

On the left is a fine Victorian shop- front imposed on a plain brick house. The town is renowned for its public school, Gresham's, founded in 1555 by John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London.

In the gap between the buildings in the centre of the photograph stood shops and offices. These were destroyed by fire on 6 May 1917.

This exquisite view shows the tall 14th-century tower of St Peter's Church with a small but richly ornamented spire and very tall pinnacles.