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.
17. Finishing touches
Manchester's Trafford Centre pictured in March 1998, a few months before opening | National World Photo: Gerald Webster
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18. Taking shape
The Lanes shopping centre, in Carlisle, under construction in 1983 | Heritage Images via Getty Images Photo: John Laing plc (photo by by Historic England)
19. 70s shopping
Pedestrians pass a flight of steps at the shopping centre in Oldham, Lancashire, in around 1970 | Getty Images Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive
20. Election special
Justin Hackney and Jenny Coplin, of Timpsons shoe repairers, at Hounds Hill Shopping Centre, Blackpool, with their election special key tops in 1997 | National World Photo: Martin Bostock