The corner shops and the local shopping arcades on your housing estate where you could pop in and pick up that last-minute necessity.
Here are 27 reminders of shops which were local to you but how many do you remember?
Take a look through our photo article and tell us more.
1. Top memories of Top Shop
Who remembers Top Shop in Elwick Road? Photo: HM
2. Brus Corner in the 1960s
The Brus Corner shopping precinct was close to completion in this photo around 60 years ago. Photo: HM
3. Oxford Road in 1989
Glad-Rags, The Granary and Finlays in Oxford Road in 1989. Photo: HM
4. A Manor scene
It looks busy at the Manor shops in 1983. Photo: HM