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The awnings over the shop windows next door are more extensive than most modern ones. The railings far left surround the Sacred Heart Convent.

The 18th-century buildings have changed little since 1900, and the delicate wrought iron balcony can still be admired above the centre shop.

The village shop, with its prominent Woodbine and Capstan cigarette advertisements, has since been converted into a house.

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 space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

On the left is William Robert Simkin's shop. He was cabinet-maker, chair maker and upholsterer, as well as undertaker.

Mr and Mrs Potts kept the village shop opposite the mill and on the corner of the A34 and Church Lane. In the 1930s, they also sold day licences for fishing in Radnor Mere in Alderley Park.

left is Hodgson & Hepworth's department store.The company established a reputation for being up-market, and there was many a middle-class housewife who would have killed just to be seen doing her shopping

Ashdown's shop is now a house named Ashdown Cottage. To the left of the Royal Oak, the small cottage with two dormers is called Thimble Cottage.

The cinema (in the distance, centre left) was soon to be closed, but the imposing furniture shop of James Ward (centre) may still be found, though under new management.

The general stores and fish and chip shop were owned by D A Chatters. A nearby road is named after the Rev Harpur, vicar here from 1937 to 1950, who lived in the former vicarage on the left.

The ice cream shop on the corner is also stocked with plastic beach balls and even a paddling pool.

Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's. The swinging AA sign has gone, replaced by one for the sports unit.

A little way down is the Gospel Hall, and three doors down a tiny hardware shop. The thatched cottages beyond have been demolished and replaced.

A pestle and mortar (still present) proclaims that Mackereth, late Mason, is a chemist's shop.

George Oliver`s shoe shop (left) was one of several Cornish branches in the early 20th century; it still exists in a modernised form as Messrs Timpson.

Bleasdale's furniture shop and Yates's Wine Lodge are on the left, and Mangnells and E R Booth are on the right.

Many of the shops in this photograph have gone, not surprisingly. Bendy's Stores is no longer there, nor is Bishops Cycles and Motorcycles on the right.

Those in the foreground do survive, however, and now include a computer shop and an Indian restaurant - something that the people here could never have imagined in the 1950s.

At the turn of the century the lucrative tents were a closed shop run by number of families: the Dentons (Harry Denton was the bathing machine proprietor and port sanitary inspector), the

Beyond Bakers Lane (centre left), what used to be the tearooms have become an antiques shop. Half way up on the right is the 18th-century red brick Arnot House.

Although it looks as if this village had a grocer's shop, if residents wanted the big town experience it was necessary to travel a few miles.

Here we see new building in post-war Wales - new shops, a supermarket and offices in the form of a modern precinct.

Walls and Lyons Maid were generally the only ice cream sellers on show in shops during these years.