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Behind us is the long established Woolworth's store, and the shop buildings on the right are also long-standing, with only cosmetic changes - like the removal of the chimneys and dormers from the central

The White Horse public house (centre) at the corner of Zion Lane has been replaced by the new building at the entrance to the new shopping precinct, Phelps Parade.

By the date of this photograph, much of the town's main streets were established, and they display the characteristic detail of the period: projecting shop fronts proudly display their goods (including

The corner block on the right is Samuel Webb's drapery shop at No 27 and 28 High Street. It has an unusual hipped roof which neatly turns the corner to The Close.

The gable to the left now proclaims that the building is a tea room, bed and breakfast and shop. Milk churns are - of course - consigned to the history books.

The adjoining Smith's Library has long been a stationer's shop - it originally belonged to the local historian George Sweetman.

By the mid 1920s the Midland Bank building, beyond Lewis and Godfrey's drapery store, had replaced Sidney Park's shop. The Royal George Hotel had by now ceased business.

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

A Calor Gas stockist, the shop also boasts Brooke Bond and Walls ice cream. The parasol outside advertises Martini. On the left of the picture are the familiar red telephone box and post-box.

The small brick extension was a shop. Several other farmhouses and cottages in the village have medieval origins.

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

At the right Smalls of Spilsby, a clothing shop, remains to this day.

Take away the trees, update the shop frontages and turn the road into a dual carriageway, and you see Mutley as it is today, except that the Hyde Park Hotel (from where this view was taken) is now on

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

The Roundabout c1960 This is part of modern Cheshunt, with its brash new shopping parade and roundabout with its ornamental fountain, which would not be out of place in one of Hertfordshire's

Rowing boats offering trips around the bay, boat shops drawn up on the beach and donkey rides were some of the attractions on offer at the Island.

Captain James Cook was employed here as a grocer's apprentice, perhaps in a shop like that on the right of this photograph, before he made his name as the discoverer of Australia.

A rarity today would be the pork butchers' shop, on the right with the pram outside.

It was described as having 'mean cottages, a few poor shops, an inn and a shabby railway viaduct ... and over all whitewash and coaldust struggling for mastery'.

A view of one of the city's best narrow medieval streets, lined with tall, overhanging shops and houses.

London Road acts as a dividing line between Camberley the town and the military area - the town, with its line of shops, is to the right of this picture and the grounds of the Royal Military Academy are

The shops have been considerably smartened up. New buildings flank it on both sides, that on the right housing a discount bookshop.

Harrogate had become a fashionable town noted for its fine shops and rich teas.

of the employment in Victorian Cheltenham had been directly related to the activities of a spa town, with a large proportion of the working population being domestic servants or employed in hotels, shops