It all began way back when I was a raw youth living in Ashton under Lyne – the precinct was our playground, cycling and running, often against the grain, up and down the travelator.
Some sixty years later I am still enthralled by the nation’s shopping precincts – including the very local Merseyway.
There have been two previous postcard posts – Shopping Precincts – UK and Shopping Precincts – UK Again.
Plus visits to various locations Hanley, Preston, Salford, Coventry, Billingham and Swinton.
So on a wet day in May, why not trawl the internet in search of old pastures new – when the shopping world really was new.
Come with me now on an alphabetical tour of the country’s finest precinct postcards.
Sadly many of these sites may well have been subsequently remade and remodelled, or even demolished.
Andover
Blackburn
Burton on Trent
Chandlers Ford
Chester
Coventry
Cowplain
Dartford
Dunstable
Exeter
Glenrothes
Gloucester
Hanley
Jaywick
Kingwinsford
Leyland
Poole
Portishead
Solihull
Southampton
Stenhousemuir
Stevenage
Swanley
New Washington
Modern Mooch 
fantastic set of pics Steve, thank you!
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Ta much appreciated – just killing an hour indoors on a rainy day – searching postcards!
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With reference to the Stevenage postcard, is the remarkable looking building in the bottom left hand corner a church? At first sight, it reminded me of the airship hanger frame preserved in Farnborough.
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https://c20society.org.uk/2017/01/17/visit-to-stevenage The parish church of St Andrew and St George – Seely & Paget: 1956 – 6
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Many thanks for the link, plan a visit the next time I’m in Stevenage.
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