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Popping To The Corner Shop 1886 to 1979

Before there was a supermarket dominating every town, there was the humble corner shop. Do you recognise any of these from your neighbourhood?


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Record Shop

Who remembers back in the day having a good rake...

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British Armed Forces - The British Army - Belfast - 1886

British soldiers and Belfast civilians outside the...

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London Scenes - Central London

Fribourg & Treyer, the oldest snuff shop in London...

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1908 LONDON OLYMPICS

1908 OLYMPIC GAMES: Competitors in the 1908 London...

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London Buildings and Landmarks - The Old Curiosity Shop - 1911

The Old Curiosity Shop, Portsmouth Street,...

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LIMEHOUSE, LONDON : 1920

LIMEHOUSE, LONDON 1920: A view of the Chinatown...

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London Scenes - Crossing Guards - Tufnell Park - 1922

Mr Cannell shepherds children across the road at...

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Buildings and Landmarks - Jamaica Street - Glasgow

A street photography shot of Jamaica Street...

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Buildings and Landmarks - Royal Tunbridge Wells

'The Pantiles' at Tunbridge Wells.

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Buildings and Landmarks - Saffron Walden - Essex

Dobson's Tobacconists, in Saffron Walden; a timber...

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Shopping - Window Shopping at Night

Even men cheerfully defied a heavy downpour of...

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Cricket - Harold Larwood - Blackpool

Behind the counter of his sweets and tobacco shop...

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British Consumers - Shops - Confectionery - London - 1949

Yesterday this sweet shop window was empty but...

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Shopping - The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop, Portugal Street.

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British Consumers - Sweet Shops - Hull - 1951

Football manager/player Raich Carter, serving in...

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Shopping - Newsagents and Tobacconist

Arthur Bond (football referee) at the counter of...

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British Consumers - Shops - Newsagents - London - 1952

Arthur Bond (right), football referee, in his...

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Shopping - Tobacconist

Arthur Bond, football referee, in his tobaconnist...

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Retail - Tobacconists - The Strand - London

The interior of a tobacconist's shop.

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Buildings and Landmarks - Eastbourne

Brown's Chemist shop in Eastbourne.

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Buildings and Landmarks - Chester

Buildings and shops which form part of the famous...

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Soccer - League Division One - Nottingham Forest - Billy Gray's Shop - Nottingham

Billy Gray, captain of Nottingham Forest, who also...

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Shopping - General Store

Shop assistant in a general store on Lambeth...

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British Consumers - Shops - Sweet Shop - Chigwell - 1963

Children buy sweets in confectioners shop at...

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Buildings and Landmarks - Brighton

Old shops in The Lanes in Brighton.

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Football - Referee Resigns - Yorkshire

Peter Rhodes retires after 20 years refereeing the...

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Football - Referee Resigns - Yorkshire

Peter Rhodes retires after 20 years refereeing the...

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Finance and Economy - Currency - Decimalisation - London

Tomorrow (13th Feb 1971) Mrs Alice Robinson (87)...

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THATCHER/GRANTHAM

The corner shop grocery - now unoccupied - in...

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