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The Country Stores, a Mace shop complete with modern sunblinds, offers a wide range of supplies.

At the beginning of the 20th century there were plenty of shops along Compstall Road, and it was also where Joseph Bullock had his saddlery business; the local police station had Harry Wibberley as constable

Across the road can be seen one of Wisbech's familiar landmarks, the 'illuminated clock' on the clockmaker's shop, of Mr Dann.

The Chequers Hotel (left) is still in business, but the Freeman, Hardy & Willis shoe shop next door has gone - the building is now used by Eastern Delight.

This view, clearer than the similar 44954s (page 21), shows the elegant gas lamp to the newsagent and tobacconist (left).

There are shopping parades of the neo-Georgian two storeys of flat-over-shops types built later in the 1950s beyond (a building site in this view).

On the left side of the High Street we have a K shoe shop, then Timothy Whites the Chemist, Hepworths, the Congregational Church and Lloyd's Bank.

Next door to Murrays was Olivers' shoe shop, today T M Taylor & Sons, jewellers. Their previous shop is now the Shoreline Picture Gallery; next door is the Mantrap boutique.

This splendid name is that of a chemist, who opened his shop here in 1810; he was the formulator of Jeyes Fluid, the well-known antiseptic. The shop is still a chemist's.

It was occupied mainly by Woolworths, but there were also small shops such as the Luton Hat Shop; Alfred Webb, a photographer; Collins, a butcher; and Bayliss, a greengrocer and florist.

The mock- Tudor shopping parade is of about 1900, and The Mart, the third shop from the left, is still The Mart, a newsagent, tobacconist and confectioner.

This photograph looks eastwards towards the mediaeval town centre, but apart from reminding us that shop fascias were once sensitively designed, and that shopping streets were once pedestrian-friendly,

Then came Mrs Gristwood's bakery shop, which was replaced by Howe & Son, and ultimately by Spurriers.

From the 1920s war memorials appear in the photographs, which also show iron railings sacrificed during the Second World War. What the Frith views omit is interesting.

The street is a pleasing mix of Victorian shops and modern infill.

On the left, along West Street, stood the Crown and Anchor public house next door to the shop selling 'home-made pork pies and sandwiches'.

Here we see a traditional corner shop and general grocery store.

In the photograph we can see Dent's, Pageant House, selling food and fancy goods; the other shop is a newsagent, stationer and tobacconist.

Here and above we see contrasting aspects of one of the town's most important thoroughfares: a quiet residential section overlooked by the comforting bulk of the Town Hall, and the busy shopping

One of the busiest shopping streets in the city, it is now dominated by modern shop fronts catering for students and the tourist trade, but its narrowness is a constant reminder of its medieval origins

On the extreme right, at number 15 Market Place, is R S Pallister's butcher's shop and at number 17 was Elizabeth's, a ladies' and children's outfitter (just out of picture).

This photograph shows the shops on the other side of the street from E167019. On the comer (right) we have Delbridges. The nearest building on the right was originally Lloyds Bank.

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

Sad to say, the wonderful trees on the older picture have gone, replaced with new shops and a parking bay for the ever-growing army of motorists using their cars to pop to the shops.