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Clark's, the well-known shellfish supplier, traded from the small shop.

It replaced Sansom's ironmonger's shop, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury. A century later, it still serves as the minster's main function and meeting room.

The Magpie and the Swan Hotel are old coaching inns, which are prominent amongst a mix of family-owned shops and businesses.

The first modern shop façade in the High Street was Fine Fare (left), a small supermarket on the corner of Meadow Road, vying with the more old-fashioned International Stores opposite.

Thomas Hardy immortalised the cove in novels and poems, while artistic views are on sale in every Dorset gallery and gift shop.

On the left is Kerrison the butcher's ornamented shop front, with a refined iron balcony overhead.

Mortimer's shop on the right is offering rolls of decorative linoleum and dress fabrics.

The shop fronts and buildings on the left are similar to today, but the one major difference is the huge increase in traffic on this road.

On the left we have Smith's umbrella shop, which had just diversified into wedding and birthday presents.

However, the Ordnance Survey maps surveyed shortly after the First World War show that the development had stopped short of this view. These shops were built around 1930.

Broadway is a tempting village for tourists today, full of antique and craft shops.

The shop and the building beside it have since been converted into a private house.

The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop. Between the Victorian brick buildings is a small thatched cottage with a mansard roof.

In the fifties and sixties many shops and other commercial users clearly felt a need to advertise their presence more aggressively to passers-by.

In 1993 this was replaced by the very successful design of the Castle Mall shopping centre, partly built underground below a raised park.

The shop with the telephone kiosk outside, the van, and the electricity supply lines dispel some of the timelessness that clings to one of the area's more remote villages, where The Bell inn has refreshed

However, the small village shop extension has disappeared. The Harborough bus is about to set off for Kibworth Harcourt, the neighbouring village, and two fine old family cars stand in the road.

While a group of children on the beach greet the photographer, others visit the sweet shop (left), whilst a group wait with suitcases to be collected at the end of their holiday (centre).

The shop by the lamp standard, 22 High Street, was that of Walter Small, 'floral specialist and fruiterer'.

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar's.

A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop. Below and to the right of St Mary's Church we can see the gable end of the Old Post Office.

Notice how the butcher's shop has obviously just been repainted. Mr Mason (?) still stands by the door, meat still hangs outside the window, but the sign has not yet been replaced.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.