Another shopping centre and another time

I thought I needed a contrast to Beech Road and a time between then and now, so I chose this image. No prizes for guessing where it is but so much has changed since the picture was taken in the late 1970s or early 80s.

I bought veg in the Liptons, had a special meal with friends in the Indian restaurant and bought a holiday to Paris in the Travel agents next door.

Liptons were one of those old grocery chains which began in the late 19th century went through a series of mergers in the early 20th century and died after a takeover in the 1980s.

Picture; from the Lloyd collection