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It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.

From right to left are seen the Dorset Arms, Dorset House, Amherst House, Sackville House, a butcher's shop, and Cromwell House, with its tall chimneys.

There is an inn, some shops and the remains of the old market cross. Over the centuries, the sea has crept steadily closer to the village and is now only a few hundred yards away.

F Holt`s shoe shop can be seen on the left of the Walk.

In the latter half of the 20th century, Bournemouth not only maintained its reputation as a leading holiday resort and luxurious shopping centre, but became a university town and acquired city status.

From left to right the shops are W Brewer & Son, saddlers, F H Aspinall & Son Ltd, F T Hay, and Geoffrey Bishop.

The town's premier shopping area still exhibits the same charm that is evident in these pictures. The photographer's viewpoint in both instances is now the entrance to a new piazza.

On the left, the river bank is being cultivated as a vegetable garden - essential when the nearest shop is several hours away.

On the right can be seen the public house the Ham Tap, and also Mr Elson's greengrocer shop. Outside is his delivery bicycle.

At various times it incorporated a boarding school, shops, private residences and - as the name suggests - the town's museum. Central Park now extends to the iron bridge.

Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners

trade for the area was conducted, although recently, after many years as nothing more than a car park, the site was excavated for its archaeological value, and then turned into a multi-storey underground shopping

A fire on August Bank Holiday Monday 1931 destroyed a small seaward end pavilion, erected in 1907, along with the mid-length shelters and shops.

The end house is in use as a shop, which would have served the caravan park on the land next to it.

This view clearly shows the details of the ornate pillars supporting the eagles, and the lion mask spouts.

A closer look at the shop and the clock. The national figures installed on the clock did not appear until 1904.

The shops remain, but the trolley buses which arrived in 1939 did not survive long after this photograph.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

The bank on the corner has become the Midland Bank, while across The Square the familiar names of Boots the Chemists and Foyle's Library appear on shop signs.

This view shows the other end of the Square abutting Market Street. Marks & Spencer can just be seen on the left.

The Capital and Counties Bank is still very much to the fore, while the premises of Mellor's jewellers shop are somewhat overshadowed next door.

The population of six thousand at the beginning of the 20th century had all the variety of shops necessary for a thriving independent community.

The white three-storey building on the left, 18/20 Market Street, was the shop of W Morgan & Sons, butchers and fishmongers.

Lilliput's shop, on the corner of the High Street and Drewitt's Corner, closed in the 1970s when the building was demolished to make way for more modern development.