Many shops and businesses in the town of Newport, Isle of Wight, have come and gone, some little noticed while others have marked an end of an era.
Perhaps one that chiefly marked a period of change was the disappearance of Timothy White's - a major store in the centre of the town.
It was not long before its closure that the store achieved one of the firsts in Newport - by dispensing of the traditional shop counter and replacing it with the goods readily on display for the customer to handle, and take to a central checkout for purchases. Quite a new method of shopping for the time.
These days, the premises, on the corner of St James Street and High Street, is empty since BrightHouse departed, but Tesco is hoping to move in.
Another lost building was the frontage of the old Newport marketplace and indeed the market itself, the site replaced by a supermarket - now Morrisons.
Not far away stood the Odeon cinema, in its past having been the venue of many important film openings etc, and now a retail store (Solent Beds and Furniture, on the corner of Pyle Street and Town Lane - opposite the County Press office).
The photo shows the Odeon's manageress with Linda Hayden who starred along with Peter Finch in the film Somewhere to Hide - all filmed locally on the Island.
On another corner of St James Street and High Street was Smeeds, the wine merchants, to date an empty property, having had many occupants since the traditional wine merchant's occupation.
Finally, not a shop but a site once belonging to Hurst the ironmongers, but now a car park.
However the good news is that Hurst, like a few other local shops, is still with us, giving a little stability in our ever impersonal and fast changing world of high street shopping.
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