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Surprisingly, Hocken`s chemist`s shop next door is now Hocken`s Audio Visual Ltd. The garage is now occupied by Mitsubishi Kingswood and beyond is the Kyber Tandoori.

The Maypole Grocery Store (dried peas 1s 6d), Boots the Chemist and Halfords (everything for your Raleigh bicycle) are the shops overlooking the War Memorial, which by then had had the names added

Notice the charming cottage draped with creeper opposite the churchyard with its unusual porch, and the village shop next to it.

One new addition to the modern scene is a parish council notice board between the gates and the shop front.

This small village, set amongst the Clwyddian Range of hills, once boasted seven pubs; the shop we see here is a grocer and butcher.

The Queen's Head Hotel, now shops, used to stand just across Matlock Bridge (from where this photograph was taken) on the way south towards Derby.

Here we see a typical shopping parade of the 1950s. It includes two banks, a newsagent's and a garage. The Midland Bank, on the corner of the row, now bears the name HSBC.

Great Totham Garage is still to be found behind the shop in Maldon Road.

Here campers queue up at the camp shop for their daily newspaper, milk, bread and so on. Three other campers enjoy the pleasure of riding a four-wheeled cycle.

Look above the shop fronts of Timothy Whites, Baxters and Hiltons on the left and see the fine brickwork, the stone quoins and the sash windows.

There were once 2,500 cabinet-making shops in London, many employing children.

Union Street is littered with shop names and advertisements. On the left are signs for Frisby's Boot Stores - 'Best for Shoes, Best for All'.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the left is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

But as popular motoring increased, tea-shops such as The Flower Bowl, seen here, sprang up to cater for visitors and local residents alike.

It stands across the road from the old Mint House, now an antique shop, seen here when it was three cottages.

The Hemingford Laundry (left), which was taken over by the Huntingdon Model Laundry, closed in the late 1960s when Gordon Elphick opened a furniture shop on the premises.

The merry-go-round of high street names continues into the sixties: Hepworths is now David Parrish, men's outfitters, while next door Oliver's is now a book shop, although it retains its golden boot outside

The Mace corner shop, Little Orme Stores, has customers, but this site today is dominated by a large roundabout and garage beyond.

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

They were built by wealthy cloth merchants, or drapers, and so it seems appropriate that one shop, R Maddox & Co, is still selling cloth and children's dresses.

Chipping Ongar is so called because of its ancient 'cheaping', or market, and is still an important shopping centre. Until recent times, Ongar was the easterly terminus of the Central Line.

Fondly-remembered Turog bread is advertised outside Tomlinson's whitewashed baker and confectioner's shop in the centre of Ingleton.

As befits a sailing town, a number of shops have always been given over to yacht chandlery and provisions.

In later years the family home became a butcher's shop, and the other part became an inn.