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.
29. Getting a shock
Carol Garritty, from Penwortham, and seven-year-old Annie McDade, from Ribbleton, get a shock when they see 'live' window dummies Chris Mills and Lindsay Roocroft in the window of the Maelstrom shop i St John's shopping centre, Preston, in 1996 | National World Photo: Ian Robinson
30. Lucky winners
Valentines Helen Jones and Neil Aikman receive their £500 prize after winning a competition at Fishergate shopping centre in 1997 | National World Photo: Iain Lynn
32. Hounds Hill
Hounds Hill shopping centre, Blackpool, in 1999 | National World Photo: Dawn Castle