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A brand new terrace of shops on the left replace some cottages, and soon after 1890 the Greyhound and Burgis' stores were rebuilt more grandly.

The large four-storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe shops. Today it is the Woolwich Building Society.

Today, only the gallows pole across the street remains of its distinctive sign, while the building itself, along with Kemp's the bootmaker's, has been replaced by a massive new shopping centre.

The Chelmsford Window Cleaner was more self-sufficient: his handcart is just visible behind the Coal & Coke Merchants' shop.

This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.

This view shows a peaceful scene along Brows Lane. However, redevelopment was about to rear its head. New retail outlets were built on the right hand side.

This was the entrance from Lumley Road to what is now Tower Gardens, before the frontage was built up with shops and cafés.

The old Laindon High Street had about 120 shops spreading in twos or threes from the Fortune of War down past the station to Langdon Hills.

Most of the shops now offer passing trade antiques rather than haircuts. Note the sign to the then quite new M1 motorway.

Here we look south along Church Road to the village shop, nestling behind the 17th-century Cobblers Cottage.

The antiques shop (right) next door to the White Horse pub is no longer in business.

The photograph shows congenial, modest, mostly early 19th-century buildings, with a series of shop fronts pre-dating the ugliness of late 20th-century aluminium framing and internally illuminated fascia

The shops to the left were demolished in 1902-3 to make way for Deangate.

The shops to the left were demolished in 1902-3 to make way for Deangate.

retention of mature trees has helped soften the vast expanse of new paving whilst the construction of new retail premises (right) underlines Cardiff's status as one of Britain's foremost shopping

Much of Grange was constructed during the later 19th century from local stone and slate, and there is a pleasing uniformity to the buildings that line its principal shopping street.

There is not a shop to let in sight. Mini cars appear to be flavour of the month with the drivers of Brierley Hill.When introduced in 1959 the Mini was radical in its design.

On the extreme right is Zetland House, next to the Ship Inn, and a few doors below is a butcher's shop, with slaughterhouse behind.

Customers at the corner shop in c1955 would have paid 4d for a 14oz loaf, 1s 3d for a 3lb bag of flour, and 2s 6d for 1lb of butter.

Jarrow's seven-acre pedestrian shopping precinct opened for business in February 1961; it was all part of a grand scheme to rid the town of its cloth cap image and to drag it into the modern age.

Since the 1950s the village shop has transferred to the middle distance, near the van.

Now it provides a focal point for the start of the town's main shopping street.

This little group of shops was built in 1908, on the site of a former wheelwright and boat-building business.

Its shop front, and indeed its whole demeanour, almost shout reliability and good solid service. Unfortunately, flashy cuckoos have taken over the High Street nest.