A Lyons Maid lollies advert, a TV rental shop and a video hire store - these images from our archive are bound to prompt memories of the 70s and 80s in Havelock Street.
Some taken before the Swindon town centre area was pedestrianised, they show the kind of high street businesses many of us grew up with.
There's a Speed's Wool shop, a stationer, a florist, drapers, clothes boutiques, furniture stores and even a Singer sewing shop.
For many years it was a one-way street for traffic but 23 years ago the borough council gave the go-ahead for a £105,000 project to pedestrianise a large chunk of it.
Now, as shopping habits have changed, many of the old stores have given way to cafes and restaurants, vape shops, nail bars and charity shops.
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