These amazing, evocative, black-and-white, pictures take you back to Market Street, Deansgate and other places to show how we got our shopping done back in the day. There was no Amazon, but the fish van still rocked up at your door.
We’ve also got classic scenes of people browsing the windows of Kendals when it was the place to shop and be seen.
Take a look through the archive pictures in our gallery below. If you enjoyed these you might enjoy our look back at Manchester’s bus and trams through the years and some landmarks we’ve loved and lost.
1. Market Place
Ye Olde Fyshing Tackle Shoppe and the Coal Exchange in Manchester Market Place, circa 1900. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
2. Browsing the day away
Shoppers in Manchester, August 1931. Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
3. Browsing the shops
Shoppers outside Lewis’s on Market Street, Manchester, 1931. Photo: J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
4. Fish to your door
Fish sellers in the streets of Manchester, 1920. Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images