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In the background is Holy Trinity Church, a most unusual building, which in the 1900s included a tobacconist, a bank, and two butchers' shops as component parts.

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.

The railings to the left, now gone, bounded the churchyard of St Michael's Church of 1836, bizarrely converted into a shopping mall in 1982.

Now Paul Richman, a clothes shop, the first floor window has been restored and the render removed from the stonework, setting off the 1656 date-stone.

Behind the frontages beyond is The Precincts, a new shopping mall.

Beyond the telephone box, still here, the shop was rebuilt recently, but otherwise there has been little change.

Tobacconist and confectioner R Keeley (left) is trading as the Car Park Shop. Jutting out at low tide are Gun Cliff Jetty, Long Ledge (right centre) and Broad Ledge.

The 180ft-high spire dominates the town, and looks down onto the heart of the shopping area.

It is unusual that the shops along this winding road have been turned into houses, as has the Old Bull Inn.

The old post office looked across the green towards it - indeed, the cottage next to the shop is called Windmill Cottage (the right-hand half is Forge Cottage).

The Swan Hotel can be seen in the distance and the shop, outside which is a parked car, is now a private house, once owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Broadway still exists, but now much wider and with a multi-storey car park on the right, while Tesco's and the Nicholson Centre shopping mall take up most of the rest on the right.

The pediments to its left were 'modernised' in the 1960s with a straight parapet, while on the right there is now an entrance to the Nicholson Centre, a modern shopping precinct on the site

By this time, Mr Couper's shop is no more (see 85120), and the gates under the two figures are firmly closed.

In 1900 Provost Black of Greenock, a strict temperance man, wanted legislation introduced to close ice-cream shops on a Sunday.

Savage's and Burton's Menswear shop are on the right, and there is a cafe further up the street.

On the right are Elm Cottages, of which four were later altered to shops and one pulled down to make way for a new post office (1896).

There were originally 33 small shops in Butchers' Row. The architectural flair and panache associated with Victorian work is evidenced here.

The building on the left was home to the offices of the East Suffolk Gazette, with the ground floor taken up as a shop.

As usual in those days, the village had its shop, and Brant Broughton also had its own petrol station, just the one pump selling Esso petrol.

In 1949 the shops along Hagley Road were all taken. Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

The main change is that the single petrol pump and brick hut have disappeared, and so has the shop front of what was the general stores. The house is now known as Glendower House and is a guesthouse.

Members of the RAF and the RAAF are remembered by a memorial clock located in the shopping precinct, and dedicated to those who did not return from operations over enemy territory.

The present building dates from the 1950s; it replaced an earlier beer shop with one room and a serving place. This was run by Lib Riches and Charley Borley, who became the first tenants here.