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In this later view, taken a little further south-west from photograph 26717, Dales' premises, Lindum House, on the corner of Wellington Road, has been rebuilt, but the former hotel beyond, now shops, can

A police officer keeps a close eye on traffic at the foot of Preston Street, with the International Stores displaying its selection of groceries in its corner window, and the printers and stationer's shop

A pram and its occupant wait outside the tobacconists, with its impressive display of advertising signs, in this line of quaint overhung shops.

Roy's family store has grown out of a grocer's shop started at the beginning of the 20th century to cater for the needs of 'Yachting and Boating Parties'.

This road is the main shopping street in Fleet, and it contains a mixture of architecture from Victorian to modern.

The shop opposite it, then the post office, has also gone. The Prince Albert (left), served in 1960 by Stroud Brewery, remains little changed.

It was a merchant’s house with shops on the ground floor and the hall and chamber on the upper floor; the hall was heated by a stone fireplace above the doorway.

Basildon's first shop opened in Market Pavement on 16 August 1958. It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

No longer shops, they have been decked out with modern leaded casements and bow windows. To the right behind the tree (now gone) is the wall to the churchyard.

Between the entries of Hermitage Lane and Portland Road can just be seen the little shop of Arthur Paine, hairdresser; and on the right, at No 12 Middle Row, is William John Simmons Mann,

By 1965 it was the last surviving cathedral lych gate in Britain, but was demolished, along with Lich Street, to create a dire shopping precinct.

The shop on the right is insured with the West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company.

As an illustration of just how far we have civilised ourselves over the past fifty years, consider the following: cycles are parked against the kerb and outside the cycle shop without security.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

The National Provincial Bank on the right is now the post office, while the shops on the left have since been demolished to make way for a car park.

The cramped grey stone cottages and shops seem in danger of toppling over each other.

The shops on the left replaced a gabled, timber-framed pub, the White Swan, which was demolished in the mid 20th century, probably soon after World War II.

It closed down as a shop and post office in the late 1970s. The YHA sign on the right points to the youth hostel that used to be at the end of Eastfield Road.

Further down, the shop with the clock and the 'eyes' was later removed in a road-widening scheme.

By 1897 it was a very fashionable shopping area.

Despite the cars, though, the delivery men could still find a parking space to service the numerous, and sadly missed, local shops.

Taylor's Drug Store signboard is almost as big as the shop premises.

statue, commemorating her Golden Jubilee of 1887, was moved to the abbey park in 1946, while the gutless Corn Exchange of 1886 and the Queen's Hotel of 1864 were swept away for the awful 1960s Bury Street shopping

The Georgian Town Hall of 1810 regularly holds antiques auctions and the town is well-known as an antiques centre with plenty of shops in which to browse.