THEY are names from Southampton’s past that still live on in the memories of many local people and these rare photographs from the 1930s and the post-war era of the 1950s will lead to many reminiscences.

A photograph from 1936 shows the Fifty Shilling Tailors, that once stood on the corner of Civic Centre Road and New Road next door to the jewellers J Pursuer and Sons and the Forum cinema, is open for business.

In another scene taken three years later Freeman Hardy and Willis, the long-established shoe shop, is pictured in Above Bar next to the Sussex Hotel and Halford’s the cycle shop.

Another tailors, Jackson, feature in the 1957 photograph of Above Bar as one of the new generation of buildings that appeared in the shopping centre as part of the redevelopment of Southampton after the Second World War.

Three years earlier the clean, modern lines of the furniture and carpet shop John Perring, appeared in Above Bar in a photograph which also included the shops of Ponsfords, Dewhurst and Liptons.