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High street shops
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The days of the small shopkeeper are very nearly over thanks to the rise of the supermarket chains and the increasing tendency for people to go to big shopping complexes like Brent Cross or Bluewater by car.
Going down to your own town centre by foot and armed with a shopping basket is probably something that fewer and fewer people remember. The 'high street' would have been lined by the usual array of provisions shops, the butcher, the greengrocer, the baker, interspersed with other small businesses that had survived in the particular town. We can remember a wool shop, an angling shop and a saddle shop to name a few. There are a few survivors still of course, pictured above is a fishmonger, left, and a very tiny electrical shop. Below is an antique shop which is itself antique, having been built in the 15th century.
We'd love to have your photos of old high street shops that are still going, so please them to us and we'll publish our favourites on the site.
Useful links Have a wander down Kensington High Street ... or some of London's other well known streets |
Old Glasgow Shops |
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