HERE'S an image which takes us back in time to 1962.

IT shows Mill Hill's main shopping area, New Chapel Street, which is dominated by the Congregational Church and its clock tower at one end.

The still-cobbled street is bordered by a variety of individual shops, a hairdresser's, corner shop grocer's and a butcher's, while Warburton's, on the left, appears to offer a mix of goods.

There's an umbrella, clock and lamp in the window, while the shop also advertises tobacco, chocolate and ice cream.

Traffic is only light, with just a Hillman Minx and, we think, an older model of a Standard Vanguard on the cobbled street.

There are half a dozen pedestrians on this small stretch of the street, one shopper with her wicker basket and another elderly woman wearing a belted raincoat and headscarf, so traditional for the time.

There's a large Silver Cross pram outside the butcher's and we love the smaller pram for the toddler on the left.

Maybe his brothers and sisters were at school at the imposing two storey, Mill Hill County Primary close by, which used to have a small playground at the front for the infants and two large ones at the rear for boys and girls.