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A baby girl waits in her pram for her mother to come out of the first shop on the right. The Railway Hotel in the distance is still trading. Today's shops include a butcher's and a newsagent's.

The shop on the right is no longer a shop, now just a house. Today the pub on the left is the Master Builder, and owned by Wadworth's.

Prominent on this main road was Rushton's poultry shop on the left. At Christmas especially, rows of pheasants, rabbits and hares hung here, along with other game, poultry and fish.

The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter.

Some of the shops which can be seen include George Petley's Toilet Saloon; the cleaners, Achille Serre; Mrs Finch's confectionery shop and tea rooms; Turner, gentlemen's outfitters and A E Schulkins

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

The smaller shop nearer the camera is A E Bond who sold toys, stationery and fancy goods. Note the two large gas lamps hanging from their shop front.

On the left was Caesar's newsagent's and tobacconist's shop, 16 High Street. The next business was that of Pilcher & Son, butchers and greengrocers.

It must be assumed that the symbolism of the clock design meant something to the developers of this pedestrianised shopping area, but there is nothing on record to tell us what it might be.

The half-timbered top storeys of all these shops added an attractive architectural extra to this suburban part of the town.

The village shop and post office are featured prominently in this picture.

A Showerings van and shop can be seen here on the right. This local family made cider and beer and delivered it door to door.

This busy shopping street reveals a wealth of fine old wooden shopfronts.

The two lorries, one of which is a Vulcan, are delivering to Reynold's grocery shop. Sharing the same building is Ellen Coustan, the ladies' and children's outfitter's.

Its only clock dial faces Albert Hall's grocer's and draper's shop (left), now Bank House Stores. The house on the corner of Chapel Street (centre) now has a porch in the second bay.

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

The shop with the flagpole (on the left-hand side of the road, just beyond the taller parade of shops) is George Hilton & Son, a furniture and furnishing store.

Here we have a closer view, looking north, of the shopping parade soon after its construction. The forecourt of a National petrol station can be seen beyond the main building.

There is an interesting diversity of shops, from a plumber's to the Cocoa Rooms - this has always been Preston's main shopping street.

Strangely devoid of motor traffic, this view of the Cheam Road captures a small group of adults and schoolboys waiting at the bus stop on the right for a 213, 408 or 470 bus to transport them westwards

Now it is a house and a tiny plate above the shop window reads 'The Old Post Office'. Four and a half days a week, the Village Hall hosts the Post Office.

A lady pushes a pram towards the shops, while the man beside the Morris Minor (centre left) calls over the road to his wife. The second shop on the left is Lloyds Bank.

The 16th-century premises of H F Smith are now a shop dealing in ethnic ornaments, whilst the barber's shop (see the stripy pole) now sells antiques. The girl's panama hat is typical of the period.

This excellent view of the shops on the side opposite the Market Hall shows an attractive variety of architecture.