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This is an excellent view of the fascinating shop front of 'J Cooper - Groceries and Provisions', with Mr Cooper's delivery van parked outside.

The junction of High Street and School Hill is still recognisable, though the shop on the left-hand corner is now an estate agents and the building is tile-hung.

The small, busy, individually owned shops of this period have now disappeared; they have become mostly restaurants with an Indian theme and fast food outlets - and one is a topless dancing bar.

In a few yards there were many clothes shops here, including Weaver to Wearer, Burtons and Fifty Shilling Tailors Ltd.

The pub and shop go back hundreds of years. This is a large village with a number of neat houses. It is close to the River Wissey and the main road to London.

This famous shopping street started in the 1760s as a row of elegant houses designed by the architect John Wood.

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

Here we see a variety of village houses with a bicycle shop selling Raleigh bicycles, inner tubes and puncture kits. At the end of the street is the great medieval hall house, Emplins.

It has been pedestrianised with trees, imitation gas globe lights and CCTV, with Starbucks occupying the old Lloyds Bank building (extreme right) and an opticians shop in lieu of E J Gibbs on the corner

The Wheatsheaf pub on the right is still trading, though the cycle shop opposite has gone.

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

Bentalls department store is in a commanding position, and towers over the other shops in Clarence Street.

The Village Sweet Shop and Hailey's have gone, and this very pretty building, which hides a 17th-century timber frame behind its brick skin, is now a restaurant, to which has been added a not very beautiful

The corner shop at the junction of Terrace Road and Forest Road displays numerous advertisements, including those for Walls Ice Cream, Cadburys, Digger, and Turf.

Dog food and tobacco advertisements are much in evidence on the shop fronts, and we can see the Vallis Tea Rooms above the tobacconist.

This is the main shopping street between the Market Place and New Bridge. On the right is the Black Bull Hotel, noted for its two-storey bow window which projects into the street.

Looking north along the High Street, we see that the old lamp standards have been replaced by more lofty modern ones, and while the electrical shop on the left is still primarily concerned with advertising

There is a welter of shop signs - the Victorian and Edwardian shopkeepers were never slow to advertise their wares. Note the awnings suspended from simple poles.

This is the main shopping street in Great Yarmouth. The most interesting feature of the town is the Rows, enormous numbers of parallel alleys leading off to the west of King Street.

Although the shops now have new proprietors, the upper parts of the buildings are unchanged. Towards the end of the row, a policeman stops to talk to a cyclist.

A couple of small shops now occupy the ground floor of the first house on the right. Blenheim Palace and Blenheim Park attract a large number of tourists to the town.

The Crosshills Co-operative shop is prominent in the centre of the photograph, alongside the Crosshills Pharmacy and Sheila Davey's florist and fruiterer's in the basement of the building on the right.

The clock tower was built by the potter Sir Edmund Elton for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, by which time the shops were spreading towards the sea front with tourist development.

The village grew thanks to railway workers and commuters, and shops moved onto the ribbon development on the Bristol to Bath road - we can see a post office, an optician's, a chemist's, a Co-op and a petrol