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.
13. Walkie talkies
Geraldine Unsworth, of Argos, and Max Duke, of Skelmersdale Police, test out the new walkie-talkie link, introduced to target shoplifting at the Concourse shopping centre, Skelmersdale, in 1997 | National World Photo: John Leatherbarrow
14. St George's
St George's Shopping Centre, Preston, in September 1974 | Submitted Photo: Peter Reed
15. Santa hotline
Ulrika Jonsson gives Santa a ring at the opening of the Pocket Phone shop at Hounds Hill shopping centre, Blackpool, in 1997 | National World Photo: Dave Nelson
16. Grand opening
A giant champagne cork pops as Mayor Collin Hanson opens Hounds Hill shopping centre, Blackpool, in August 1980 | Submitted Photo: Submitted