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Note the decorative lamps outside the shop on the left.

Consider the visual impact made by the motor car in forty years by comparing the traffic, the signs, the shop fronts and the street furniture. Note the quaint petrol station on the right.

By the mid 1950s, post-war rationing was coming to an end, and local shops were once again offering a choice of goods.

However, in 1987 it was converted into a shopping arcade.

Several 18th-century stone facades are apparent in these pictures, and some of the other old houses are disguised by contemporary shop fronts.

Note the large pair of spectacles above the optician's shop. Victorian retailers were fond of using such devices, which were usually painted gold, to advertise their premises.

The development included the construction of Shopping City, which at the time was one of the largest retail centres in the country.

To the right, Williams & Wilde's baker's shop is next door to the awnings of Isaacs the greengrocer's.

The Thoroughfare is Halesworth's main shopping street. Throughout the town there are some fine period shopfronts.

On Bridge Street, J T Jeffery's shop was later pulled down to accommodate the extension to the post office.

Note the tobacconist on the left advertising Players No 3 and the canisters outside Stephen & Fred Green on the right (now a menswear shop and a branch of OXFAM).

Many of the shops have retained their Victorian detailing. The postman is delivering from his two-wheeled basket cart.

Church Road's late 19th-century shopping parade leads from the station to the steepled 1860s church, built to minister a burgeoning commuter town.

Clustered around its head hoardings advertise amusement arcades and gift shops.

There are now new shopping centres in the vicinity of this commercial area of the town.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

Note the branch of Woolworth's just visible at the end of the street, and the branch of Dewhurst the butchers among the other shops on the right.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

the New Town was being built many new streets were named after people linked with the town: King Harry Street, Waterhouse Street and Combe Street, are adjacent to Marlowes where the first new shops

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

An excellent view of Boyd's souvenir shop, situated in Larne's Main Street. A wide range of knick-knacks of all descriptions are waiting for customers.

The advertis- ing above the shoe shop on the left shows that some favourite products have been around for generations.

The photograph generally shows later Georgian flat-fronted houses with shops thrust into their ground floors.