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.
33. Panda
Newspaper deliverer Aaron Chambers, Postman Pat, Chris Burrow from Broughton High School, newspaper deliverer Rebecca Dewhurst and the Panda mascot, at the Fishergate shopping centre, Preston, in 1998 | National World Photo: Lindsey North
34. Carols
Children from Christ the King School singing Christmas carols at Hounds Hill shopping centre in 1993 | National World Photo: Rob Lock
35. Boulevard
The Boulevard shopping centre in Bradshawgate, Leigh, damaged after a lorry backed into the gutter post of the entrance in 1998 | National World Photo: PAUL SIMPSON
36. St John's
St John's shopping centre, Preston, in 1996 | National World Photo: Godfrey Birtill