Some buildings have had several uses down the years and here is on.
Sometimes adverts are enough to make a place a landmark.
Sometimes modern buildings add something to a street, and sometimes they don't.
There is one thing in this first photo that might still be there today.
Here is a view of a row of shops that may have entirely disappeared - they looked as if they were clinging to existence even when this photo was taken.
We may be heading for weeks of low traffic as fewer people travel by car, but old pictures show streets before cars were widespread.
Sometimes the big clue about how life has changed does not come from the big buildings, but the little things that change.
Some products that have today all but disappeared were once such a part of everyday life that they were advertised everywhere.
Many of the high-rise blocks of flats that went up in the 1960s have been knocked down - and here is one of them.
Not one but two landmarks have vanished from this week's first photo.
