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The Broadway shopping parade was built in the 1930s with easy access for pedestrians.

The photographic record importantly shows the villages at different stages of their expansion and repays careful study in understanding the way they have evolved.

They are outside the shop of butchers and game dealers Robert, John and William Balson. Still trading, as R J Balson and Son, they now claim to be England`s oldest family butchers.

Many of the shops on the right incorporate the word 'Priory' into their titles to indicate their proximity to the Priory Church of St Peter.

The High Street still has shops, banks and pubs. Petty Sessions were held in the Swan Hotel, and the public house on the right has been a popular watering-hole since the early 1800s.

One stop down the line from Enfield town, Bush Hill Park station was opened in 1880 to service this development by the Northern Estates Company.

Bodiam is located on the River Rother and was once a port that shipped iron ingots and cannon, which were made in the area.

The parish church of St Peter, with its solid flintstone tower dominating the high street shops and mid-morning traffic in this picture, was originally built by the Normans alongside the spacious

Many of the old buildings and shops on the left still remain, albeit with altered frontages.

By 1965, Pentraeth was a village that began to owe much to tourism, as the beach ware on sale at the shop on the right shows.

The builder and undertaker's shop on the extreme right was on the corner of Church Road, and the frontage of the adjacent cottage is little altered.

On the eastern side of the Broadway, the sun awnings of all the shops have been unrolled against the summer sun's rays, with, remarkably, the sole exception of the local branch of the International Stores

Midway along the range of buildings on the left we can see the 'Coal' sign which stood above Riches' shop.

The building beside the bridge, now called Bridge Crafts, houses a post office, craft centre and tea shop.

The shop-front (left) is that of boot-makers C Adams & Son.

Much of the remainder is roofless, but restored and consolidated; the Country Park was opened in 1969, and very popular it is too, with a café and shops in the nearby stable block.

There is a poster for cocoa in the window of the Co-op shop on the left. A boy is sitting between the shafts of a handcart in the middle of the road.

Traffic is still sparse in the town's main shopping street, but parking regulations (different sides on alternate days) were in force.

The buildings we see here were constructed around 1850, and the street became the main shopping area for Manchester.

The outbuilding and shop beyond have been demolished; the site is occupied by new houses.

The building on the far side of the square is the Widnes & Runcorn Co-operative Society offices and shops.

Earlier, this had been the Half Moon and Punchbowl brew house and shop. The single-storey building at the rear is the former gatehouse of the Odiham and Farnham Turnpike Trust.

Hemingford Abbots no longer has a village shop, and in part the pub carries out this function by selling stamps and other items.

The fine avenue of box trees was removed - box wood was in great demand by the Luton hat makers for use as blocking moulds - and houses and shops were built.