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Few national brands were to be seen on the main street, apart from Lipton's grocery and the Westminster Bank visible in this photograph; the remainder are locally owned and managed businesses.

Brand new inventions, tools and machinery were displacing the manual labourer, and an era was nearing its end. This beautiful view shows a reaping scene with a self-binder.

The curved building on the left is brand-new. The building at the end of the view is a prosperous department store in High Street.

This building at Hazelwood was brand-new when the photograph was taken. It looks as if it was intended for Portrush, and is an enthusiastic example of the architecture of the time.

This view shows the brand-new locomotive No 3, 'Wyddra', ascending out of Llanberis towards Snowdon - the rack is clearly visible.

Brand new inventions, tools and machinery were displacing the manual labourer, and an era was nearing its end. This beautiful view shows a reaping scene with a self-binder.

The chain store grocery International Stores were prominent across the Home Counties into the middle of the century, and the Empress Tea Stores has a roof-top sign advertising the well-known brand of Maypole

The Post Office has transferred to Brand Street; Briggs & Co., the Leicester Boot Company with its impressive gilded sign, and the Maypole Dairy, share its old premises.

The Grand was almost brand-new, and the Royal was rebuilding. Another recent pile was Pim's Stores, ready to cater for the same clients. The Stag's Head ranked as a public house, but took visitors.

Mr Fairburn was famous for his own blend of whisky, known as Abbey Brand (named incorrectly after the priory, which was often referred to by Victorians as the abbey).

In fact, the town is one of the few in West Wirral where national brand names have made significant inroads.

In fact, the town is one of the few in West Wirral where national brand names have made significant inroads.

The shape of things to come is the brand-new National Bank building; this bank had a London base boasting capital of £7m, and several branches in Ireland.

During his visit, the Duke switched on the brand new automatic cigarette processing machinery and unveiled a plaque to commemorate the occasion.

Currys, at the far end of the street, has now moved out of town and operates from a retail park, in common with most of its fellow brand-holders in the DSG Group.

Cove's London Hotel (centre left) is now the Moorish Wine Bar, and J H Easterbrook's Boot and Shoe Warehouse (left) is now two separate businesses.

By 1920, the head was the Rev Ernest Alfred Crewe Stowell, BA, and pupil numbers had risen to about 150.

HM Customs has now relinquished the building, and it has become a wine bar and restaurant. On the quay a steamship is being loaded.

Of Harborne's pubs, the Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures

The pavilion has lost its minarets, but it is now equipped with both an indoor snack bar and a self-service buffet. We can also see Prince's Park with its colonnade to the right of the casino.

The pavilion has lost its minarets, but it is now equipped with both an indoor snack bar and a self-service buffet. We can also see Prince's Park with its colonnade to the right of the casino.

In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port.

Of Harborne’s pubs, the Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures

On the left is the City Luncheon Bar, and in the foreground a fleet of carrier’s carts owned by Henry Drapper.