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Boots Corner was quite a landmark, and there are still old customers around who preferred the old rather than the new shop in Baxtergate.

The first modern shop façade in the High Street was Fine Fare (left), a small supermarket on the corner of Meadow Road, vying with the more old-fashioned International Stores opposite.

The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

Numerous shops were installed in the Pavilion complex. This view shows (to the left) a poster advertising Bailey's Central Pharmacy.

Rogers & Son (left) offer petrol sales and repairs, and next door a pottery shop caters essentially for visitors.

The Newspaper Shop, on the left, is now Woolhampton Stores and Newsagents, and the Angel Inn next door looks very different today, almost completely covered by ivy.

The White Hart pub (right) still stands on the corner, but this row of ramshackle shops on the left, that once included a draper's, a tobacconist and a motor-garage and cycle works, have

The name of this busy shopping street is significant because it commemorates Lord of the Manor Colonel Humphrey Senhouse, who expanded the town greatly in the 18th century, and renamed it after

We are looking down on the Pot Market, where pots and pans were once bought and sold, and along Queen Street, the main shopping street of this small town on the White Peak plateau.

Significant changes have occurred since the photograph was taken: the post office is now inside the store, and a new modern BP filling station and shop have replaced the old petrol pumps and sheds.

Sir Henry Price and the Fifty Shilling Tailors A branch of the Fifty Shilling Tailors stands on the right of the parade of shops in this photograph.

Lincoln suffered a lot of demolition in the 1950s and 1960s, including No 12 on the far left, now drab 1970s offices, and the buildings beyond which made way for the Stonebow Centre shopping mall of

Before the construction of the town centre, there were few shops in the new Basildon. Initially, just two small Co-ops served the first few hundred inhabitants in the Fryerns neighbourhood.

Situated almost a mile inland from the castle, Tintagel village has a single plain street, a confusion of antique slate buildings and tawdry modern bungalows and shops.

The shop names visible on the right, moving right to left are Charles Saies, draper; Herbert, ironmonger; Picture Post; the County Stores and Oliver's.

Dating from the 17th century, the Shambles comprised several shops in an arched arcade, with living accommodation over the top.

The ivy-clad house, named the Hollies, would be replaced by more shops in 1928.

We can still appreciate in these photographs the quality of houses and shops, before the destructive work of the modern window salesman spread like a rash over the country.

At least the shops still retain well-mannered fronts.

By the end of the 1870s it had become one of the principal shopping areas.

In the foreground is Edwin Broad's draper's shop. Shades and awnings suggest that this is summer.

The railing and trees on the right are part of Brockwell Park, and the shops on the far side are under the Herne Hill to Tulse Hill railway line.

At the time of this photograph, John Delaney ran the shop. It is now the Bluebell Restaurant, a location in the BBC documentary 'Essex Wives'.

Fred Atter's grocery shop and café and the old post office went to make way for the footings of the A1 flyover, which now dominates this scene.