Shops Gallery

View down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London

A superb postcard view down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London - the detial is incredible, with individual shops identifiable, the pavements as busy (as they ever are!) and the impressive form of the Victorian schoolhouse on Independence Road, now a Montessori Centre and Private Hospital. Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Haymarket, Sheffield, 1937

Elevated view of Haymarket looking towards Fitzalan Square and General Post Office. Norfolk Market Hall, left, No 32, Castle Street, Arthur Davy and Sons Ltd, Provision Merchants, 1937
Shows pedestrians crossing and interrupting traffic flow

© Sheffield City Council

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Opening of Whiteleys department store, 1911

Two pictures reporting on the opening of Whiteley's department store in Bayswater, West London in at the end of November 1911. The original store, in Westbourne Grove had burned down in 1887 and this new building took retail to a new level, dazzling shoppers with its size and amenities such as a golf course on the roof and a theatre. The huge crowds that assembled for the opening can be seen in the right hand picture. Date: 1911

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