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Nostalgia for the bustling high street is misplaced

Annie Gray is refreshingly unsentimental about the days when cooking for the family involved time-consuming visits to the butcher, the greengrocer and baker

Harry Wallop
King Street, South Shields, c.1900 getty images
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  • The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street

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    Profile Books, pp. 416, £22

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