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The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

The awnings above the shops shelter busy shoppers, whilst often displaying the name of the store. An attractive street lamp can be seen in the centre of the picture.

This tiny street of small shops offers a glimpse of the city's gleaming white castle, which rises from a great mound raised in prehistoric times.

To the left, the corner shop with the large awning is now a bookmakers. These once quiet roads are now filled with heavy traffic.

As we can see in this photograph, many types of shop occupied the units in the New Shambles.

Identifiable businesses include Murray Kerridge's jewellery shop (far left), the shoe chain Frisby's, who had begun their long tenure opposite after moving from Poole Corner, and in the distance

On the left is a shop advertising Coca- Cola and Lyons tea, and on the right is a garage and a café.

The 'rare good sands', as Charles Dickens described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and

The shop beside the two girls on the left is now a restaurant and part of The Black Lion.

Many of the little villages like Overstrand invested well by turning the old shed shops and tin cafes into modern premises.

College Street Public Hall (on the right) fell into disuse, became a motor-body repair shop and is now a car park.

Verran and Sons, fish and poultry purveyors, was a very popular shop, as was Betty Brown's Café, next door but one, where one could enjoy a cream tea served by smartly-dressed waitresses.

Facing down the street (centre) is the Corner Café, now an optician's shop, whilst the café on the left is now an Indian restaurant.

Now part of a strictly controlled conservation area, this group of shops on the corner of Green Lane and Norton Road blend into the environment.

The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.

At the end of the 19th century it acquired this splendid arcade of shops off Friar Street opposite the Town Hall. Severely damaged by a bomb, its site is now occupied by Bristol and West House.

Here are some splendid examples of Victorian shop fronts. W J Bacon's general store has awnings and a covered walkway to protect customers from both sun and shower.

It is now occupied by a catalogue bargain shop and a building society, and the clock has gone. The buildings on the left were demolished to make way for a MacDonald's restaurant in 1988.

Ladies in long dresses and shawls and bowler-hatted gentlemen wander amongst the shops, several of which display their wares outside to attract customers.

A wonderful variety of shops surround the Square as well as several pubs.

The large shop is Thomas Denny, grocer and draper. On the corner is Robert Critten, 'chymist'; further along the High Street are Stead & Simpson and the Crown Hotel.

The mock timber-framed Chestnuts now has a shop front at ground level. The butcher's beyond has been rebuilt as a bank.

The buildings on the extreme right in this picture have all gone, now replaced by modern shops. Many of the units on the left, including Young & Son, have also disappeared.

Nearby Hay has become renowned over recent decades as a 'book town' where every other shop seems to sell second-hand books.