A street lined with traditional shops like greengrocers, bakeries, drapers and gents outfitters, made Cricklade Road in Gorse Hill popular with generations of shoppers.

These images from our archive show what the area looked like in the 70s and 80s, before much of the road network changed around it and people's shopping habits were affected by the internet.

There was a Mecca bingo hall once known as the Palace cinema, which was eventually demolished and replaced with flats and offices.

Liptons had a supermarket there. At its height the chain had more than 3,000 branches, but they began to disappear from high streets in the 1980s and the last closed in 1986.