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South of Fareham, Stubbington has some attractive areas of modern housing, and the village shopping centre, the Parade, is built around a small green.

Bond's Hotel advertises good stabling, with John Henry Whitford's grocer's shop in front, in contrast to the Tavistock Hotel's rather faded sign on the right.

Up the hill is an early example of a covered shopping area - the Butterwalk, parts of which were known as piazzas.

The farm buildings are in a less orderly state, and there is a Spar shop down the road on the left.

Shops extended along Main Road to serve the residents of the garden suburb and the residential developments which grew up between Main Road and the railway.

It was built behind the shops and had a long sloping covered passageway leading to it, providing comfortable queuing in bad weather. Steward's Walk now occupies the spot.

The Methodist church on Sandpit Road corner was demolished in July 1988 to make way for the George Yard shopping precinct. It had opened in 1868.

Local delivery of purchases by bicycle could still have been available at this time, though the bicycle in front of the shop appears to be a customer`s, as there is no large basket frame

In the foreground, awnings are pulled out over Briggs shoe shop and the Maypole Dairy. Next door, under the clock, is Mottrams, established in 1865.

Note Falaise, a dress shop, and the sign for ice cream at the end of the cobbled pavement.

The shop has since been converted to a private house. The main line railway station is to the south of the village centre.

Boots, on the left of the picture, later became the premises of a linen shop. The church's magnificent portico was completed in 1701.

On close examination today, 'Kendalls' (left of centre) was rebuilt in the 1970s as a vague facsimile, and 'Man's Shop' was redesigned in aggressive 1960s glass and concrete frame style.

The cobbles of this street remain, but the shops have become houses. The church spire was demolished in 1947. Not medieval, it was installed in 1827, apparently using a design for another church.

The boy on the swing is Norman Pearson, watched by his mother; Norman still runs a cycle shop in the High Street. Mount Noddy Cottage, nestling in the trees, was demolished in the 1950s.

The buildings on Vines Corner to the left of the bridge have gone, while Swan House to the left of Holland's dignified Swan Hotel replaced the house and shops seen in photograph number B511054; they were

Pettit's Stores on the right is now the Grapes and a barber's shop.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

All is of the 30s, including the row of sub-Arts and Crafts shops, and on the right the small buildings originally associated with the railway.

The photograph shows an area to the south of the original village as it drops down towards Tally Ho Corner, but just a little to the north, among the modern shops, are 18th-century houses and a fine 16th-century

Note Olivers shoe shop on the right, and the various advertisements (including Fry's cocoa, left) and Lloyds News (right).

The Lotus tearoom next to the card shop (centre) provided meals to eat inside and trays of refreshments to take onto the beach.

This quiet scene in the heart of the shopping district lacks the bustle of modern Newquay.

It is a nice sunny day; there are people about, and there is time for a leisurely chat, while some seem interested in the beach just out of shot.