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Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture. The in-store café can be seen to the extreme left.

Formerly called The Parade, this fashionable rendezvous and shopping parade was first laid out in 1638, taking its current name from the grey concave tiles with which it was paved in 1697 at the instigation

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

The Copper Kettle tearooms used to be near the Royal Oak (left), but it has now closed and two fast food shops have appeared. The Royal Oak is the sole surviving public house on the Causeway.

The village now boasts a general store, a pottery with coffee shop and two garages with a cafe.

Well-known shops here include Burtons, Woolworths and Timpsons.

Built in the 1750s, Martock's Market House originally held a row of shambles or butchers' shops.

F W Woolworth's, with its large window display and traditional sign, occupies a building which dates back to the 15th century, while the foundation stones of Burton's menswear shop, with its flamboyant

Coventry has undergone massive redevelopment since the end of the second world war, not only with projects such as the Broadgate shopping precinct, but an American-inspired partly-elevated ring-road

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

The Lloyds Bank on the left is still in place today but the Boots beyond it has been relocated to the new shopping development on the riverside.

What would the fishermen have made of shops such as Dressywear (left)?

sometimes known, particularly the final part of the process which was pure theatre, has taken on an almost mythical quality, celebrated in drawing, engraving, painting, and metal sculpture at Meadowhall shopping

Tomlinson's Stores is now the premises of Age Concern, and Goss Bros is now a tea shop.

Havelock Street is a terrace of Victorian artisan cottages, while Station Road remains the principal shopping street. The Co-op is still the Co-op but with a less attractive modern shopfront.

The baker's with its characteristic 'Hovis' sign is still a baker's, and Duston retains other shops, unlike many Northamptonshire villages.

All the buildings on the left have been replaced by the modern Swansgate shopping centre. Other change includes the demolition of the stuccoed Midland Hotel on the right.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Because of the relatively small shop sizes the larger retail chains, such as Boots and Burtons, have moved to bigger and better premises in the new Horsefair development - a successful retail location

The woman and young girl on the left are standing in the doorway of the local piano shop.

The delightful open-fronted small shops are still largely unchanged today.

This shop also acted as an agent for the local dye works. Goudhurst originally prospered as a result of ironworking, and then later cloth making and dyeing.

On the left are two small shops owned by Mr Bushell and Mr Ruddock and, in the distance, the Seaview Hotel.

All we can see in this photograph are cottages and the village shop. It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982. The last bare-fisted boxing match was held in Wadhurst in 1863.