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On the left is Kerrison the butcher's ornamented shop front, with a refined iron balcony overhead.

preserves much of its Victorian flavour, with its sweeping promenade faced by numerous hotels, its expanse of sands between the headlands of the Great and Little Ormes, its pier, its wide streets and its shops

Across the road, the row of small shops, which included Forum Cleaners & Dyers, J D Gillett & Son (seed growers) and the Covent Garden Stores, have been removed and replaced by a garden area - dedicated

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

By the end of the 19th century, New Street was both the principal business street in the town and the best for shopping and entertainment.This view is from Paradise Street.

Their purpose was to shield the copious provisions in shop windows.

Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead. Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house.

Most of the houses are 19th-century, including the shop (dated 1881) on the corner of Ray Lane beyond the now relocated war memorial cross. It is now a private house called The Old Post Office.

The building was later transformed into shops, but has now gone. Its replacement, the Railway Hotel that we see here, was built between the wars at the Station Lane junction.

This view shows how much more traffic there was by the 1960s, and a 'No Entry' sign to King Street. A van in the square belongs to Lawrence's, a radio and television dealer.

This view shows one of the principal shopping streets for this town of around 13,000 people.

The less mighty shop building next door advertises Hunt Tailors. We can see a lady shopper out in trousers, which would have been frowned on before the war.

T J Heseltine, the family butchers, is the shop on the left, and next to it is the well known firm of Melias, the confectioners. Rakes Lane goes off to the right.

The cart is outside the shop of butchers Robert JohnBalson and William Balson.

Little survives to the left of The Carlton Printing Works, nowadays Threshers wine merchants, and the shop-blinded two-storey building at the far left.

On the left, the white timber-framed, jettied building was the Bell Inn, which closed around 1880; it is now a gift shop. It is said that Queen Elizabeth I stayed at the Bell on a journey north.

As we come away rfom the main shopping centre, the buildings become less imposing and only two stories in height; but still the stone facades prevail.

The early 19th-century shop front has 'an ashlar stall riser beneath C20 plate-glass windows which curve to a left-hand doorway' and a 'timber modillion (ornamental bracket) cornice gutter' (Department

The ground floor space was occupied by shops while the upper was used for meetings.

Mercer Row is a good example, and the Georgian shop window to the right survives intact.

On the left are a number of shops hoping to catch the eye of the passing visitor on their way to or from the beach.

A cycle shop on the extreme right belonged to Charlie Cole - a most respected veteran racing cyclist.

A few miles from the old port of Pwllheli, this small village on the side of the river Erch would seem to offer little to the passer-through; but a few houses, a church and a small shop offering anything

This 1930s mock-Tudor shopping parade still stands on Rectory Lane as it winds its way south to the junction with the Chipstead Valley Road, where the buildings of the Woodmansterne Treatment Works, belonging