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The cinema and the row of shops were built in the 1930s on the site of the Rose and Crown Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1922.

Two doors along is Boots, 'the largest chemist in the world', and just beyond that Sainsbury's, with its distinctive shop interiors, spacious, practical and hygienic, worlds away from the small, cramped

On the left we can see Baker's clock, near to their shop; they were well-known clock and watch makers.

Bancroft was said to be one of the most beautiful streets in England by the artist F L Griggs in the 1890s, and it still shows a certain charm. The building in the distance stands at Moss's Corner.

The shops and stores on the left were demolished in the last decade to make way for the new Frenchgate shopping centre.

Beyond are the four little cottages now adapted into three shops (one of which, Ada Francis, is advertising her Dining & Tea Rooms), and the post office, which replaced that at Maplesden's

More change and continuity: the three-storey building with the four lamps is still a shoe shop, Stead and Simpson, rather than Freeman, Hardy & Willis, but the cycle shop on the left, festooned with tyres

Beyond are the utilitarian shops of the 1960s, quite new when the picture was taken. Today much has gone, including the odd eaves-slatted canopy to the recessed shops, which has been sawn off.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

A Dimond had already traded on the High Street for some 80 years when this photograph was taken, and Dimond's (left) are happily still in business, though the shop front has changed slightly

Here we see a simple, well-proportioned range of three-storey shops and flats of around 1890, with their fine sensitively-crafted pilastered fronts.

Alongside the mill was T Kirkham's blacksmith's shop; horses were brought here through Atkinson's fields. In the yard was also Jack Breckell's wheelwright's shop.

To the left the Shopping Centre occupied the Victoria Palace Theatre; this was mainly used as a cinema, and by the date of this photograph had been stripped of its ornate stucco facings.

Opposite the arches and pillars of what used to be Hayman's Pianoforte Warehouse are just visible; the premises are now a gun shop.

Lewis's building is on the left, and Rylands Store is opposite on the right: two of the most successful princes of commerce, and two great influences on the way we shop today, are facing each other at

David Lewis had advertised that 'our prices are the lowest possible and NO deviation from the marked price will be made'; the public took to the system, much to the amazement of the other shops.

The shop extension filled with shoes and boots is now filled with all manner of things for pets. On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.

For centuries Friar Street has been occupied by small tradesmen, such as the hardware merchant whose tin buckets are displayed so exuberantly outside the shop on the left.

Virginia Cottage is on the left, and the shop of shoemaker Fred Cox who was succeeded by Frank Cox.

This view is looking north up Alderley Edge`s main shopping street, the little gardens in front of the premises can clearly be seen.

Many of the shops on the left remain, whilst most of those on the right were demolished in the early 1970s for the building of the Trident Shopping Centre.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

In front is a row of modern shops, including a Co-operative store at the end by the truck, which had replaced a row of terraced houses.

Housing of all sorts grew up on the rest of the Common and in this view Fernlea House, on the left, is from the 1890s while the pair of shops is from the 1960s, the stores now a Spar and the