The location of this old photo should be instantly recognisable.
It's Fortuneswell on Portland, which, as you can see, doesn't look too different from modern day Fortuneswell.
Although it's not really apparent what the shops were, reader Chris Osborn has pointed out that the shop on the left is Stone's. He writes: "I think they sold shoes as well as underwear. Some of the Stone family lived in Sunnyside Road, Wyke Regis."
It seems as though Stone's had a long presence on the isle.
Geoff Kirby's excellent website on the history of Portland informs us that Stone's once had premises in nearby Queens Road and it shut for the last time in 1989.
In January 2003 work was underway to turn this building into a house and by 2007 it had lost all signs of ever having been a shop.
Susan Chadwick has many fond memories of the shops in Fortuneswell.
She writes: "When I was little I remember a bakers a couple of doors down from what is now Manor Theatre, cross over road and there was a shoe shop where I bought school shoes using the provident payment, then up a bit there was an off licence cross back to just before
"St. John's was Combens electrical, Nashe was a paper shop, there was a clothes shop just before Nashe's there was Liptons (now The Co-Op), the big Post Office was a couple of doors up from there and just past the main bus stop was the butchers we used....memories."
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