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The wall on the right belongs to the Congregational Church of 1874, demolished apart from the tower for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1980.

The building on the left was home to the offices of the East Suffolk Gazette, with the ground floor taken up as a shop.

A fine example of a traditional Edwardian shop front. Misselbrook and Weston's provision store seems to have offered every grocery product the discerning customer could desire.

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

The fingerpost directs visitors to various on- site amenities, including the Warden's Office, the Providore (the shop) with its familiar Walls ice cream sign, and the First Aid and Hospital

The names on the shops are different, some of the trees have gone, the road has been resurfaced and fashions have changed, but not much else. The narrow street is fringed with cobbles.

Late Victorian shops exemplify the continuity of trading here; they shoulder up to earlier businesses, one of which has some timber framing (centre).

It is surrounded by the simple grey slate-gabled shops and houses which are so typical of a small Lake District town.

We can see old shops in the photograph - S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher. The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.

Lord Street was built as a boulevard shopping street with fine canopied pavements - a place to see and be seen - and it is still an aspirational goal for many national retail chain stores.

The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right

The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right

The total street scene exudes 1900, with typical shops and corner pub.

Many of the company names of the shop fronts live on in other contexts after nearly half a century.

This is a fashionable place for shopping - note the liveried coachman and the motorcar. Bicycles appear to be a popular mode of transport for the ladies.

By the 1950s many of Stroud's locally-owned small shops were giving way to familiar chain stores, though the streets remained relatively free of motor traffic.

This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring

New Road is one of the main shopping streets of the town. The roads seem empty by today's standards. In the foreground is British Home Stores, and Hepworths is on the extreme left.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

Holy Trinity church is a most unusual building in that a number of shops are built in it. In the 1900s these included a tobacconist's, a bank, and two butchers.

No 57 Market Place was occupied by Lennard's shoe shop from 1939 (left), and before that was used by Mrs Swaffield as a tobacconists and hairdressers.

The opposite corner, once M A Symons, a milliner, is now a charity shop.

Above the doorway of the shop on the right is the famous logo of 'His Master's Voice' - the gramophone had become a fashionable gadget in every home.