Looking back down Worcester High Street: do you remember the shops?

Well-known big names have come and gone, large department stores have brought the shutters down for good, internet shopping has lured away many customers and the landscape today looks very different from how we might have thought it would just a few short years ago.

There is no shortage of suggestions of how things might be revived, from calls to scrap business rates, to looking at how store space is rented, as city and council bosses try to come up with viable plans to keep our high streets thriving.

The Boxing Day sales in 1988, with some shoppers looking distinctly weary

They must constantly reinvent, as this wander along Worcester's main thoroughfare and look back at some of the shops that used to be there shows. There was probably a time when people could not imaging life without those familiar sights.

Pictures: where would you find these features in or around the High Street?

But gone they have, to be replaced by others. Who's to say that in another few years, our city centre won't be another look different again? Perhaps not as bustling as it once was, but no less successful for that.