Shops – you take them for granted until a pandemic shuts them overnight | Nostalgia

We’ve probably all learned to value our shops much more in the past 17 months.

Who will ever forget the eerie quiet that descended on our high streets during that first lockdown?

Bulson's Stores and Pleasure Retreat in High Street, Lee-on-the-Solent, the closest Lee got to having a department store in its main street.placeholder image
Bulson's Stores and Pleasure Retreat in High Street, Lee-on-the-Solent, the closest Lee got to having a department store in its main street.

So today we’re looking at some very old shop fronts from around the area.

And if this whets your appetite click here for a few more in our gallery.

A message from the editor, Mark Waldron.

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