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An antique chandelier and fireplace shop is now where the Balcombe Stores were.

The Marine Hotel can be seen in the distance, and the shop sign on the extreme left reads 'R S Skinner—Baker, Confectioner'.

Oats Lane on the left, named after the Oats family who for many generations were the local millers, is still a narrow by-road, but the Green in the distance has been developed with a One Stop shop, a bus

The road here has since been widened with the demolition of the butcher's shop - can you see the legs of meat hanging outside the window of Mason's?

This view shows the High Street devoid of traffic, with the shops of Melias Ltd, grocers, and Storey Cooper, drapers, with their summer awnings out.

This busy mid 20th-century street scene shows a fine collection of shop fronts.

In the 1890s Deansgate was one of the main shopping streets and commercial districts.

On the left are the Church Rooms, and just beyond is the then village shop, an adjunct to a residential cottage.

Two old farmhouses facing the High Street have shops - one of them advertises bed and breakfast (right).

The High Street's shabby Victorian buildings and wide variety of shops have been familiar to generations of holidaymakers and tourists on coming ashore.

Francis Frith had already set up a stockist to sell his postcards; the display board is to the left of the shop window.

The names on the shops may have changed since 1896, and the fashions moved on, but essentially this scene is little different from that of today, with one major exception - there is a total absence of

The Hovis sign over the shop (left) would now be a collector's item, and so would the delivery van opposite.

Here, a man looks thoughtfully in the shop window on the left.

In those days it was Fosters for clothes and the Corner Shop for wines, spirits, Butler’s Ales, and the dreaded Armadillo sherry.

Three of the terraced houses on the right were once shops. On the opposite corner, Skoulding's grocer's and draper's had traded since the 1850s.

There are now no shops on this corner. Traffords Stores (right) is now a house, and so is the General Stores (left), where both the window and door are bricked up.

On the right, Pearson Bros, Farmer's music store, TN Parr's pork shop and the Cavendish furniture store were well- established businesses.

The tramlines moved heavy goods between the Market Place shop of ironmonger Robert Spence and his warehouses in Friars Wynd.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

In those days it was Fosters for clothes and the Corner Shop for wines, spirits, Butler's Ales, and the dreaded Armadillo sherry.

On the left is Rankin's, a well-known draper's shop, and between them and the Regent Theatre is Hawke's confectioners.

Like so many villages, however, Ullenhall has lost its shops, post office, school and vicarage.

The 1950s were the last profitable heyday for these small and diverse local traders before the arrival of supermarkets changed British shopping habits for ever.