These photos take a look back at shopping centres around the North West during the 70s, 80s and 90s.
From construction to grand openings, famous visitors and huge queues for special events, they take you back through the decades.
They also show how the shopping centres we know and love have changed over the years, including some of the shops we have lost.
Radio Rentals, Debenhams, Mothercare are among the blast-from-the-past shops you may remember that are pictured in this retro photo gallery.
For more North West nostalgia, you might enjoy this look back at things you can no longer do in the region but we wish you could.
1. Spinning Gate
Spinning Gate shopping centre, in Leigh, in 1999 | National World Photo: John Leatherbarrow
2. Galleries
The Galleries shopping centre, Wigan, in June 1996 | Submitted Photo: Submitted
3. Champagne moment
Miss Hounds Hill, Beverley Cowburn, helps celebrate the opening of the Hounds Hill shopping centre, Blackpool, with the mayor of Bottrop, Oberburgermeister Ernst Wilczok ( 2nd from right) and the mayor of Blackpool, Councillor Collin Hanson (far right), in December 1980 | National World Photo: Library
4. Huge queue
Fans wait to meet Monica Lewinsky during her book signing session at the Trafford Centre, Manchester, in 1999 | National World Photo: Ian Robinson