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The one thing these pictures definitely have in common is the rain. It appears to be as wet, if not wetter, in Oxford Street, Ripley, in the 1930s as it was in the 2008 photograph above.

The street has been repaved and pedestrianised, all the shop fronts are different and there are a couple of new buildings on the left, where there appears to have been a garden, but many of the houses are essentially the same.

Was the tall building facing the end of the street a chapel? Why not add your memories of some of the old businesses and how times have changed?

• Derbyshire then and now

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