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Above the ground floor of the shoe shop, John Farmer Ltd, can be seen a fire mark indicating the many years that the building has stood there.

To the left is the confectionary shop of H Bovett; then comes the Volunteer Inn, and in the distance the premises of the East Devon Motor Company - unchanged in use today, for it is still

The church still survives (without that lovely slender spire), but it is no longer a church - it is now a charity shop selling second-hand furniture.

As we return to Broad Street we see the huge building on the right, the former McIlroys, opened in 1903 and known locally as Reading's Crystal Palace for its huge shop windows.

Nearly 300 houses and shops were damaged, some so badly they had to be demolished. This picture shows the new church.

Mr Trowse, bootmaker and repairer, traded next door from the 1930s but after the war it became Chandler`s cycle shop.

By 1930 a War Memorial has appeared, while the cottage beyond, Old Tythe, then the post office, is now no longer a shop.

Ketnor is the name of former owners of the shop, and the name board survives today.

Tom's, the painters (right) later became Mrs Tink's sweet shop.

Paternoster Row, on the right, was once a fashionable shopping street patronised by Pepys and his wife.

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

The High Street approach to the Market Place is seen here flanked by the Easiephit shoe shop and Woolworth's on one side, and the Rose & Crown Hotel on the other.

This earlier view of the Strand shows the Wiltshire & Dorset Bank on the left and the Commercial and Temperance Hotel in the far distance. Just past the bank is Tommy Bickford's chemist's shop.

A shopping parade was built, as we see here.

On the right is Merriman's Pawnbrokers, with its leaf-decorated lamp hanging above the shop front.

The photograph shows the present owner's mother (on the right) standing outside the camp shop.

The shop on the right is now offices.

It was built in 1830, and was originally a beer shop before becoming an inn in the 19th century.

Note the abundant cigarette advertising in the shops in King Street, and the steam roller at the bottom of the street (centre).

The Hinton's grocery shop on the right appears to be an early form of supermarket. The National Provincial Bank building stands on the left. The clock tower lies just off to the right.

To the south is a new development with its own shopping centre. Stoke Park Wood lies to the east of Bishopstoke.

The roadway just had a few large private houses, until developers inserted the shopping parades and widened the carriageway in the 1930s.

More trees obscure this view across the stream to Low Green, and Buckfast & Son's shop (behind the second tree from the right) has closed, but the buildings have changed little.

Grafton Street is Dublin's most elegant shopping street.