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A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

The wonderfully curved building on the left accommodates Brenda's, a ladies' wear shop.

Knighton has managed to preserve its charming juxtaposition of period houses as we see here, and shows a very interesting townscape.

By the late 1800s there were three shops here; one of them, Grice the chemist's (in the centre), was to occupy these premises for many years to come.

Today the Town Hall, beyond, could be described as a shell fronting the new Crown Centre shopping arcade, which was built in the 1980s.

The shop with the gabled front beside it is now (2003) boarded up and empty; we can see it more clearly in S236008 (below).

Briggs's men's wear shop (left) has now closed, ending the firm's involvement in the town from the late 19th century.

Now there are shops around the mill.

Mell Square was begun in 1964, with the first shops opening in 1966.

A double-decker bus brings trade to the town's main shopping street. Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

The old market was swept away in 1971 and the new hall was incorporated into the modern shopping precinct.

This view, looking west from the green, has lost its two community facilities: The Bell is now a house, while the shop on the right is now a house called The Old Post Office.

Most evocative of past shopping is The Fifty Shilling Tailors, a chain that grew up before World War II and originally offered suits for that price.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

It is interesting to note that the blinds of the shops on the left are of the old-fashioned type which needed metal supports.

The large shop on the left is Tuttle's, the house furnisher's. The late Victorian terrace includes the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.

On the left is a high-quality Tudor house, with arched windows for a shop at the far end. Opposite is the 15th-century Wool Hall, originally the Guild of Our Lady, with an open hall and cross-wings.

Beyond the shop is now Lloyds Pharmacy, whose good early 19th-century shopfront with fluted Doric columns is still intact.

Next to Moon's shop is the now-demolished White Hart Inn, formerly the Blue Boar. By 1909 the Cattle Market would have spilled out into the High Street.

High Street 1903 The graceful sweep of the narrow High Street provides the setting for some splendid Victorian shop fronts, with H.

Children wait outside the shop, perhaps for a school bus, while a thatcher is working on a cottage roof, his ladder supported half way into the road – a dangerous situation with today's busy traffic.

Concrete post and wire fences and rough grass verges do little to help the scene, but G and E Jackson & Son Ltd's shop front, so typical of the 1950s, just adds the dire finishing touch

This could wll be Frank Beale himself in front of their shop displaying carpets and wallpapers.

Local buses are parked in front of the shops, awaiting their passengers.