Shopping Collection

Palisade Avenue, Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1930

Lady Outside Gucci Shop
A smartly-dressed lady in turban, pearls and gloves, leaves the Gucci shop in Bond Street to step into her waiting Rolls Royce parked outside

The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells
The Pantiles, an affluent collonaded shopping area of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Queen Anne paid for the area to be paved (with pantiles ) after her son fell over on the Collonade

Frederick Gorringes, London Department Store
The premises of Frederick Gorringes Ltd. - Buckingham Palace Road, London. A fine Department Store, opened in the early 1900s and closed sometime after 1960

Advert for Louis Vuitton travelling accessories and trunks and Itylus dressmaker, London, 1926 Date: 1926

Marylebone High Street, London. Date: circa 1908

The Shop Assistant who Lost his Temper by H. M. Bateman
A shop assistant finally loses the plot after bringing out roll upon roll of material for a demanding customer to choose from. 1929

Rainy Street, Manchester
A typical English street on a rainy shopping day: an elderly couple use the zebra crossing

Bristol 1950S
Park Street and University Tower, Bristol, England

Couple kissing outside Carnaby Street boutique
A couple kissing in front of iconic Carnaby Street boutique, I was Lord Kitcheners Valet. Hanging outside can be seen a variety of mens vintage clothing including a naval peacoat

Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1911

Bethnal Green Market, East London
Shoppers in Bethnal Green Market, East London. Date: circa 1930s

Stevenage New Town
This pedestrianised shopping centre at Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire, England was the first in England, opened in 1959. It was also the first designated New Town in 1946. Date: July 1966

PONIES SHOPPING
New Forest ponies " shopping" (much to one womans amazement) at Lymington in Hampshire, England

Fat Geese! by Lawson Wood
A cheeky young lad chuckles to himself after placing a sign for fattened geese on the posterior of a rather plump lady who is herself choosing which goose to buy for her Christmas dinner. Date: 1909

Birmingham Bull Ring
The old Bull Ring Centre, a notorious symbol of post World War Two modernism, now demolished. Completed in 1964; Britains first multi-storey fully enclosed shopping centre

Opening of Whiteleys department store, 1911
Two pictures reporting on the opening of Whiteleys department store in Bayswater, West London in at the end of November 1911

High Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
High Street viewed from City Hall, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Date: 1923

Coventry Shopping Centre
The rather stark modern shopping centre in Coventry with shoppers going about their business at British Home Stores or Marks and Spencer; Coventry Cathedral can be seen Date: 1960s

Norris Green Estate, Liverpool
A shopping estate built by the Corporation in Norris Green, Liverpool

Coughs & Sneezes Poster
Humorous poster issued by the Ministry of Health during the Second World War and featuring a woman sneezing without catching the germs in a handkerchief

Marshall & Snelgrove
The Marshall & Snelgrove department store on Oxford Street, London

Hull Shops 1970S
A typical late 20th century pedestrian shopping area. This one is in Hull, Yorkshire, England, on the corner of Parliament Street

Soho, London - rear entrance of NCP, Peter Street W1
Soho, London - two people relaxing outside the rear entrance of the NCP car park, Peter Street W1. 1973

The Fishmongers Shop

Harrods Exterior
An exterior view of Harrods, London Date: circa 1900

Elephant and Castle
The Elephant and Castle shopping centre. Later deemed by many to be yet another ugly example of post World War Two architectural modernism

Saturday shopping by F. C. Twort
A busy marketplace scene in a British town during the 1930s. Shoppers mill around various stalls while the pub is open for business. Date: 1935

The Butchers Shop. A young girl in red dress and bonnet looks at the variety of cuts of meat available at the Butchers Shop

Frome Market 1930S
Well-dressed ladies carrying heavy wicker baskets of shopping, next to the fruit and vegetable stall at Frome farmers market, Somerset, England

Harlow New Town
Two little girls marvel at Trigon, a modern statue in the shopping mall of Harlow New Town, Essex, England

Birmingham Bull Ring
A busy scene in the shopping area of the Bull Ring complex, Birmingham, England

Various Medieval Shops
A scene showing various shops (Apothecary, Barber, Tailor, etc.)

A Modern Shopping Precinct - Nicholsons Walk, Maidenhead, Berkshire Date: circa 1980s

Marylebone Lane and police station, London
Marylebone Lane and police station, on the corner of Wigmore Street, London. Date: circa 1910

Harrods toy department, rocking horses, 1922
A uniform display of wooden rocking horses and smaller toy horses on wheels in the Harrods toy department, Christmas 1922. Date: 1922

Old lady, Burford, Cotswolds
An old lady, smartly dressed and wearing a deerstalker cap, look in an antique shop window. She carries a wicker shopping basket. Burford, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, England

Carnaby Street, 1960s
Front cover of a promotional booklet about fashion epicentre of the 1960s, Carnaby Street, London. A model poses in front of the streets various boutiques wearing a Union Jack waistcoat

Aerial view, Bunder Road, Karachi, Pakistan
Aerial view, Bunder Road (now M. A. Jinnah Road), Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan, on a busy day. Date: circa 1950

Midhat Pasha Souq at Damascus Straight Street, Syria
Midhat Pasha Souq inside an arcade at Damascus Straight Street (Street Called Straight; today Midhat Pasha Street) in the historic district of the city, Syria. Date: circa 1940

Brent Cross Centre 1977
Brent Cross Shopping Centre, north London. Date: 1977

Boots advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists from 1913, offering Drugs, Gifts and Your ideals realised. Date: 1913

Old Delhi street scene
A crowded, hot, dusty street in Old Delhi. A vendor stands with a large basket on his head in the centre of the crowd Date: 1987

Street view, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Street view from Kamania Gate, Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), Madhya Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910s

View of Bull Ring Market, Birmingham, West Midlands
View of the Bull Ring Market, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. Date: circa 1905

A pair of rich girls off shopping - passing an Etam Store - their chauffeur follows their progress down the street just to be sure... Date: circa late 1940s

London Life - Fashion pages by Jean Shrimpton, 1965
Spread from the short-lived but impossibly cool magazine, London Life, with a column by sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton who regularly wrote about the clothes she liked

Selfridges, London - Confectionery Section
Selfridges & Co, Oxford Street, London - Confectionery Section. Founded by American-born retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858 - 1947), the Flagship store in Oxford Street was opened in 1909

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