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This is another section of the main shopping centre, with the Red Lion Hotel on the left, Goodswens the butcher's in the centre, close to the grocer's shop of Pybus Brothers, and Hancocks on the corner

The shop and garage on the left are now houses, and new houses stand high on Strawberry Bank beyond. To the right, there is still a fish and chip shop by West Street, which runs down to the Minster.

The shops in Elm Road are structurally much the same today, although they have changed ownership. For example, Walter's bakery is now a pet shop.

One of the busiest shops in Broad Walk was Bellmans, selling wool and patterns for babies and young children.

This was Worcester's and until the 1930s many of the butchers' shops had their own slaughterhouses at the rear of their premises.

By the time that this photograph was taken, Bettle's family grocers, together with its shop front, has gone to make way for two shops.

Next to the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society greengrocer`s shop on the right is Belvedere Baptist Church, advertising its Harvest Festival, while opposite is another greengrocer - but today

This stylish Burton's tailoring shop was built in 1932; it replaced many small shops along Old Market and Princess Street. Originally, the upper floors contained a billiard hall and a skating rink.

The house on the right now has a bay window, and to its left a former carriage entrance has been filled in to become Mrs Holt's antique shop.

Note all the blinds outside the shops on the left. The sign outside the shop on the right shows that they were the agent for Pullars, the dyers.

To the right of this photograph is a poster advertising the film You Were Meant for Me, starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey, and showing at the Embassy cinema.

In the 1980s it was cleaned and renovated and partially incorporated within the Crown Centre shopping complex.

Among the shops on the left is the Phoenix Café and cake shop (nearest the camera) with E Bennett's grocery store next door; the tallest building housed the premises of a ladies' hairdresser.

There are three massive shopping centres here. One of these is Queens Mead, which is home to over 80 shops.

This street's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'cepin', meaning a 'place of trade', and here its shops include opticians, tobacconists, dry cleaners, book and toy shops and the Crusty Loaf bakers with its

Behind the chestnut tree in the village square, once known as Waterloo Square, the shops were originally a small row of cottages, which were apparently used as a quartermaster's stores and to billet soldiers

The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.

The shop on the right of this photograph is Hermitage Post Office and Stores. Today the speed limit through the village is thirty miles per hour, not forty.

The shops appear to be deserted, with even a door removed from its hinges. The street looks very different nowadays, with the hustle and bustle of visitors sightseeing and shopping.

Like many other estates in Corby, Beanfield was provided with a neighbourhood shopping centre and an adjacent public house in the centre of the estate.

Parker's shop opposite the green is one of two shops recorded in the village in the 1960s. In more recent years the village has been the annual venue for a very popular half-marathon road race.

Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.

These shops are beside Beaulieu Road. C M Topp the grocer (far left) is still trading. There was also a newsagent here. Just off the main street in North Road is the Methodist church.

It has been claimed, probably erroneously, that it is the original of ‘the Old Curiosity Shop’ made immortal by Dickens as the home of ‘Little Nell’.