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In the days before almost everyone owned a car, quiet villages situated miles from the nearest town needed village shops able to supply all the essentials.

Many of the buildings on the High Street were re-fronted in Georgian times; inside some of the shops and inns we can see the earlier jettied timber frames.

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

Shops and private houses of all dates surround the large Market Square.

Note one of the city's first supermarkets - it is easy to park and shop in one place.

The Horse and Gate pub (left) has been redeveloped into shops, the Lion Hotel (right) is now flats, and parking is only allowed on the left-hand side of the street.

All were not only shopping streets, but a key part of the regional road network.

The two parked minis and the Volkswagen car show that this is the era of The Beatles.

The pushchair is outside Huggins's shop.

Mace's wireless shop is in Aberdeen House to the left, but their TV department is on the right-hand corner. In the background is the Rutland Arms Hotel.

Here we see the village post office and shop, which sells toys and gifts. A well-maintained semi-circular bed of roses has been planted on the forecourt - oh for a dash of colour!

Jack Callow moved to Bates Lane in 1929, and here he opened a shop, which became known as Callow's Stores. We can see it in this photograph, down near the high wall, centre right.

The area serves as the main entrance to the Crown Shopping Centre - this is so-called because there was once a pub here called the Crown.

A final view of Woking and its parades of shops, this time on the Chobham Road. There seem few customers out and about, and the only traffic on the road is to be seen in the far distance.

The neo-Georgian shops and offices, designed by chief architect Louis de Soissons, stand on broad boulevards, with spacious pavements, but the ubiquitous car is already beginning to impose its own demands

A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous view of the High Street show how little it changed throughout the 20th century, with the exception of traffic problems and an increased number

Sandwiched between St Nicholas Street and the old market place at Cross Cheaping, Bishop Street was one of Coventry’s main shopping thoroughfares.

In the 1850s, Cheapside was one of the most fashionable shopping streets in London, with a ‘mighty stream of traffic’ flowing through from Oxford Street to Leadenhall and the City.

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

The 'rare good sands', as Charles Dickens described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and

Many of the buildings on the left have been demolished to make way for modern shops and offices.

Freeman, Hardy and Willis and the rest of the shops on the left closed some years ago to make way for modern units.

The shop has closed and been converted to a chalet bungalow while the thatched cottage in the distance has lost its thatch.