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.
37. The King is back
Haley McPhee, of Estee Lauder, makes up Elvis impersonator Tom Storey at Fishergate shopping centre in 1996 | National World Photo: GODFREY BIRTILL
38. The Simpsons
Bart and Homer Simpson with Rebecca Lord (8) at Hounds Hill shopping centre in 1998 | National World Photo: ROB LOCK
39. Dragon wanted
Kevin Bamber, from St George's shopping centre in Preston, is pictured searching for a new part-time dragon in 1998 | National World Photo: John Hughes