300 years on the high street: Which shops have stood the test of time in Britain?
SKYSCRAPERS have risen and fashions have shifted yet some stores have barely changed over the centuries. We look at some iconic businesses that have survived recessions, development and the test of time.
The British high street has changed beyond recognition over the last century with supermarkets, hypermarkets and shopping centres in almost every town, but there are some shops which have gone unaltered throughout the years.
The long-enduring firms include Berry Bros and Rudd Ltd fine wine specialists, Manze's Pie and Mash cafe, John Lobb bootmakers and the old Princess Louise pub.
These photographs explore the never-changing areas of the British high street
Truefitt and Hill, which opened in 1805, is Britain's oldest hairdressers and barber shop and its premises at 20 and 21 Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, has changed very little over the past 200 years.
It became extremely popular in the early 19th century and was named "court hair cutter" and "court head dresser". Founder William Francis Truefitt and his brother Peter were wigmakers to King George III.
Nowadays it continues to specialise in luxury mens grooming.
With two Royal Warrants and eight Masters of Wine, Berry Bros and Rudd Ltd fine wine specialists, which opened in 1968, continues to flourish.
The company supplied wines on board the Titanic, helped smugglers running alcohol into Prohibition-era America and sheltered France's Napoleon III in its cellars.
Today the infamous shop supplies wines and spirits to royalty - as well as the rest of us.
Lobb bootmakers on St James's Street, London, opened in 1849 and has been providing the city's elite with bespoke shoes ever since.
The family business was started by John Lobb and has passed down through the generations. "We have a way of working which might be considered old fashioned, but it's necessary to our work," says Jonathon, 44, Lobb's director.
"Working for a company with this history is quite a privilege and it contributes to the charactor."
Manze's Pie and Mash cafe was established in Deptford High Street in south east London in 1890 by Michele Manze and is now owned by his grandson.
Throughout the centuries they have continued to serve traditional pie and mash and eels - jellied or stewed - in authentic surroundings. The only change that has been made in more 100 years is an improved quality of meat.
This is the William Evans rifle shop pictured soon after it first opened in 1883. In the heart of "club land", the shop attracted customers from such gentleman's clubs as Boodles, White's and Brooks.
The original Pall Mall shop was damaged in a 1944 bomb raid and moved to its current location in St James's Street in London.
The Princess Louise pub on High Holborn in London's Bloomsbury, was named after Queen Victoria's fourth daughter.
The site has housed a pub since 1861 but became known by its current name in 1872, when it was still a gin palace.
"I love being the landlady of a place with such a rich sense of heritage, people come in because it's so ornate. There's a sense of pride in that," said landlady Caroline Edwards, 44.