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The area then had five shops including a post office. There were two schools in Rainow, one Church of England, the other Methodist.

In their summer dresses, the ladies of Cheam go about their task of shopping along Cheam Broadway at lunchtime on a warm day.

It has a thriving local economy, and the modern Elgin Mall shopping centre and new housing estates have grown up in recent decades.

The centre was heavily bombed during World War II, and a new shopping area was built at Broadmead, beyond the tower.

The large, distinctive shop premises on the left contain the headquarters of the Cainscross and Ebley Co-operative Society; when this picture was taken, it had recently celebrated its Diamond

The Town Square itself had begun to take shape by 1958, with the development of the shops on the left (incorporating Sainsbury's, Boots and Woolworth's).

Hargreaves' cycle shop on the left appears to be bravely ignoring the impending domination of the Grove by the automobile.

The Midland Bank beyond it is now HSBC and the cycle shop opposite is now the offices for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.

This view shows a broad expanse of cobbles. R J Glass's sombre edifice, left, dominates the building line, so much of which has made way for today's modern shopping facilities.

The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

A uniformed sailor window-shops below the blind of the emporium on the corner of Bedford Street.

The town has become a haven for leisure yachtsmen, with many of its shops devoted to water sports and its old inns occupied by the sailing fraternity.

The medieval grid pattern remains, but here the shops and houses are late Georgian and Victorian. To the left, Wilson's façade is a fine example of Victorian decorative brick work.

Earlier in the century, the half-timbered building housed a pair of shops. They are now private dwellings. Like the white house next door, they date from the 16th century.

The village straddles the main A41 Chester Road with the main shopping area spread out in a linear fashion on either side of the road, as we can see here.

This photograph shows Ledsham Road close to its junction with Chester Road. The scene has changed remarkably little over the years, apart from the names above the shops.

William Wrenn had only just arrived in Alton when this picture of his shop, on the right, was taken.

The shop to its immediate left replaced an old house that had been weakened by a detonation during the Second World War. The high-roofed White Hart, along the road, survives to this day.

The bus station was built to incorporate a parade of shops, seen here beneath the canopy.

Here we see Standishgate on a crowded shopping day. According to tradition, the wife of Sir William Bradshaigh did penance by walking barefoot from Haigh to Mab's Cross once a week for one year.

On Saturday 30 November 1745 a small advance party belonging to Prince Charles Edward Stuart's army entered the town and set up shop at the cross in the Market Place.

Rule and Son have a fine shop frontage. Edwin Rule was described at the time as a grocer, draper and egg and butter dealer. Note the thatched roof near the church.

It is now the principal shopping centre for the surrounding area, enhanced by recent one-way traffic systems and pedestrian schemes.

The cottages are now all private dwellings - the one with the shop blind has a pretty bay window today.