MPX5060630: Sausages and Stout While shop assistant Carl Skinner brings out sausages for the customers' approval, housewives Mrs. May Irving (right) and Mrs. Olive Brown (seated) have a glass of stout. March 1949 P000182 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5095196: Residents of the Soviet city of Yalta looking at hats for sale on a market stall in the town. April 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5118827: Sales at Selfridges in Oxford street. Customers were buying up the television sets and musical equipment, as well as other large electrical items, April 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5111311: Scene from the play The Cabaret Girl, 5th October 1922 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5072027: An antiquecollector's paradise. Shepherd's Market in Mayfair, one of the least spoiled corners of Regency London. Circa 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158122: A female butcher seen here at work in her shop. Yapton, West Sussex. 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158544: Christmas lights display in Church Street, Liverpool 24th November 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158557: Christmas lights of shimmering stars hang over Lord Street near the corner of Whitechapel, Liverpool. 25th November 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158588: Talking turkey in the market...but which one? The slip of paper on the back of this festive scene from December 22nd 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5159145: Christmas lights illuminated a busy Church Street, Liverpool, packed with christmas shoppers looking for a bargain. 22nd November 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133409: Army Soldiers looking through a shop window for souvenirs to send back home, June 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5162319: Smethwick, a town in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England. March 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

AGC3736647: We Only Sell Weapons to Those Who Comply with the Human Rights, 1978 (colour litho), Abramov, Mark (1913-94) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4627613: Illustration of the opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner, 1925 (print), Nicco, Carlo (1883-1973) / Bridgeman Images

SZT6306958: Shopping after closing time in Munich, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

KW6373452: Istanbul, Turkey, Istiklal Caddesi (photo) / Bridgeman Images

DSP3590138: Asia, China, Hong Kong, Hollywood Plaza 2008 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SZT2977993: The Hertie department store in Munich, 1935 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

KDC488411: The young florist, Bon Marché promotional card, c.1900 (colour litho), French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090129: A woman buying a packet of cigarettes in a tobacconist shopin London, leaves a spare one in a cigarette collection box, which will be sent on to a hospital for wounded soldiers during the Second World War June 1940 / Bridgeman Images

IBE5385547: Boira Street towards Llana Square, Barcelona, 19th century (drawing), Baixeras-Verdaguer, Dionisio (1862-1943) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127620: A female butcher seen here at work in her shop with her colleague 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127625: A female butcher seen here at work in her shop, serving a customer at the counter 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5118810: A model of the original premises where, 50 years before this picture was taken in March 1932, Fenwicks, of Northumberland Street, Newcastle, started. It is to be seen inside the store and attracted the attention of many visitors, c. 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151582: Bananas for sale at a market in Kampala, Uganda. 27th February 1977. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5159153: 1967 Christmas lights display in Church Street, Liverpool, Merseyside. 24th November 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5159889: Regent Street, London, at Christmas time, circa December 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127389: Within half-an-hour of shops opening today the centre car parks were full and this scene was typical of the day. 11th December 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB6176610: Cinema at Galeries St-Hubert, Brussels, Belgium (photo) / Bridgeman Images

DSP3254243: High Street,Kilkenny Town,Co Kilkenny,Ireland;Shopping District (photo) / Bridgeman Images

FRM565341: Warsaw, Poland, 30.11.1970. Passers- by at walkway by department stores 'Centrum'. Above people there is a neon advertising department store “Juniorâ€ù. / Bridgeman Images

SRB5976728: Saturn department store on Alexanderplatz Square, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Europe (photo) / Bridgeman Images

DSP3250024: Dublin, Co Dublin, Ireland; Christmas Decorations Hanging In Grafton Street (photo) / Bridgeman Images

VRM1967382: Young Woman Looking at a Window Display While Reaching Into her Handbag / Bridgeman Images

SRB5976516: Fountain of Friendship soviet style of Nations Alexanderplatz Berlin, Germany (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SRB5976729: Saturn department store on Alexanderplatz Square, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Europe (photo) / Bridgeman Images