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.
5. Foundations
Councillor Bernard Coyle at the laying of the foundation stone for The Galleries shopping centre, Wigan, in 1987 | National World Photo: Gary Brunskill
6. The Lanes
The official opening of The Lanes Shopping Centre, Carlisle, in November 1984 by HRH The Duke of Gloucester | Heritage Images via Getty Images Photo: John Laing plc (pthoto by by Historic England)
7. Concourse
The Concourse shopping centre, Skelmersdale, in 1999 | National World Photo: Paul Simpson
8. Arndale
Inside Morecambe's Arndale shopping centre in 1996 | National World Photo: Terry Bromley