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To the left, out of camera shot, lies Rugby School Lower School (Lawrence Sheriff School). The shops on the right had all been private houses only a few years earlier.

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

Note the awnings on the shops on the right of the picture, which protected the goods in the window from the sun. Perhaps the weather was better in the Fifties!

In this predominately 19th-century street, it is the once-familiar that takes the eye: the delivery boy with his white coat and bicycle basket, and the unattended pram outside Mason's shop - in today's

These date from the 17th century, and comprised several shops in an arched arcade with living accommodation above.

The premises of the Rothwell Co-operative Society has changed to an Indian restaurant, and the building to the left of it has gone and been replaced by a chemist's shop.

By this time the small shop was under serious threat. Drifut's, on the extreme left, is offering customers coloured sand shoes and baseball boots to augment its traditional old-style repair business.

These date from the 17th century, and comprised several shops in an arched arcade with living accommodation above.

The 'Taylors' has been dropped from Timothy Whites; the shop was managed by Olive Pratt.

The few scattered caravans on the cliff top mark the site of what has now become a vast 'caravanopolis' with hundreds of caravans, a car park, a restaurant and a shop.

It remains a popular holiday destination in this new century for tourists enjoying short break holidays and day trips, and it has become a fashionable shopping centre.

The camera looks towards The Bull (right) on the corner of the High Street where it separates Malling Road from Holborough Road, and The Bricklayers' Arms is on the left just past the shops.

Most of the buildings survive, but many shops have changed. On the immediate right today is Next, which did not exist at this time, whilst opposite is Burberry's.

The village shop remains, but the petrol pumps now stand opposite, where ramshackle farm buildings were hidden by trees.

The shopping arcade was very much a Victorian concept, enabling the shopper to browse without getting wet on rainy days.

The Whitehall Inn is still here, but the fish and chip shop, right, now has a more pleasant aroma as a florist.

The large shop in the foreground specialises as a clothing and outfitting emporium. They would sell top quality textiles, as this was an opulent spa town at the turn of the century.

On the right is the Crafthole Methodist Chapel, built in 1867, while the house jutting out into the road on the left is now the shop and Post Office.

A post office, a shop and a hairdresser's still serve a larger and more varied community.

Most of the shops have been rebuilt, and well-known names, such as Boots the chemist (right), have moved to the new Horsefair Centre.

Most of the shops have been rebuilt, and well- known names, such as Boots the chemist (right), have moved to the new Horsefair Centre.

Ahead is the Tiger's Head and the Edwardian shoe shop of 1912. The magnificent 15th-century church tower dominates the Mildenhall skyline.

It is a peaceful day in Evesham at the end of Edward VII's reign, with some good examples of shop signs, such as Deakin's fruit and marmalade, 'the best that skill and science can provide', and

The local shop can be as important to the social life of a village community as the public house.