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Built in 1878, and flagship of the MacBrayne fleet, Columba was renowned for the quality of her passenger comfort, with saloons the full width of her hull, a barber's shop and a post office.

Court has been a particularly successful development, primarily because of its location, just a five-minute walk to either the bus or railway station, yet only five minutes from the Broadway for shopping

The view of Church Street from the opposite side of the roadway shows the medieval timber frontage of the Berkeley Arms Hotel with its first floor mullioned window, while further along is a

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

An off- licence offers Phipps ales and stout, and at the end of the row, as if anticipating further expansion, there is a small shop.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

An off- licence offers Phipps ales and stout, and at the end of the row, as if anticipating further expansion, there is a small shop.

Numbers 99-103, with their three jettied storeys which tower over the gabled timber- framed house on the right, are now a children's wear shop.

The Parker's shop window displays advertisements for products as diverse as Brasso and Bluebell metal polishes, Mansion Polish for tiled floors and Silver Shred marmalade, while further

It hangs some five metres above street level and has been there for about 80 years, originally as an advertisement for the Copper Kettle Tea Shop.

North of Ealing Broadway station is Haven Green, with Victorian villas on its west side and shops to its east.

The famous Len's specialist railway book and model shop was situated here in a ramshackle building, precariously poised above the pit. It was one of my frequent haunts in school lunch hours.

This view captures well the somewhat disparate architecture of the shopping centre with mock timber-framing vying with mock Georgian styles.

The elaborate diagonally-set chimneys of the Edwardian Tudor-style shops on the left, with their applied timber-framing, can be seen in the distance in view 70498.

Sander's tobacco shop is typical of its time, when this sort of business used to flourish but is very rare now.

Little has changed in this picture over the years – the farm cottage on the left and the Manor House, far right, remain, but the grocer's shop succumbed to supermarket competition and is now a private

This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.

This photograph, taken towards the eastern end of Victoria Road, shows what an important retail area this was.

the Market Place at first sight all looks broadly unchanged, but since 1950 The Bull has been entirely rebuilt in rough replica, and the Crown and Woolpack has had its stucco removed, but the chemist's shop is

This section of Linthorpe Road has changed mainly in the shop owners. Very few remain the same, although Halfords (right) only moved in recent times.

F C Webb's shoe shop was seventh along, and above it was a hairdresser's. Today there is a photo developer and an osteopath's.

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.

Princes Street fares somewhat better, although the creeper-clad Georgian house beyond the shop on the right was rebuilt in 1950s Neo-Georgian.

Beyond now is an 1933 International Modern- style flat-roofed restaurant, besides other modern cafes and souvenir shops.