Pictures from the past: relive the shopping experience in Durham City when shops really were shops
ARE you missing the shops? Physically going out, looking in the shop windows at the various displays, seeing what's on offer, what takes your fancy, just browsing... Lockdown has made all that impossible. So many people are shopping virtually, online, and for those who do go out, it is no longer a pleasurable linger. It is mask up, in, out and home in a hurry. So let's step back in time in Durham City to when shopfronts really were shopfronts, each individually laid out and decorated, usually by independent shopkeepers who wanted to make their windows as memorable as possible.
Source: thenorthernecho.co.uk