British High Street

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Not a Tesco in sight! Forget today's soulless chain stores. These magical pictures show the lost British High Street in its idiosyncratic pomp

The pictures were taken in Shrewsbury, Shropshire by Joseph Lewis della-Porta, a 25-year-old photographer, whose family ran one of the UK's first department stores.