This is how Grantham town centre streets have changed over the last decade

The face of our town centres changed last week to accommodate coronavirus regulations.

Shops reopened with markers appearing on lampposts and stickers on the pavements to ensure shoppers keep 2m apart and in some instances, there were barriers up to help people with the new queuing systems.

The reopening of non-essential retailers, including clothes shops and department stores in England led to a 51 per cent surge in customers heading to the high street, new data shows.

Last week, between Monday June 15 and Sunday June 21, the number of shoppers was up compared with the week before but remain at historic lows, according to Springboard.

But compared with a year ago, footfall in England is still down 47.7 per cent.

It is likely that as shops come to terms with the impact of the pandemic, the outlook of our high streets will change.

Here, using photos from Google, we take a look at how our high streets have changed in the past decade. In the centre of each image is a white dot. Slide this left and right on each picture to compare today's high street to 2009.

Grantham

Here is the High Street

And London Road

And the Market Place

Narrow Westgate

Wide Westgate

St Peter's Hill

Watergate

Wharf Road

Retail park Sankt Augustin

Other shopping towns nearby in the county have also seen big changes.

Stamford

High Street

Sheep Market

And it's not just the High Street that has changed in Stamford. Take a look at how different one of the main roads into the town looks 10 years on.

Bourne

North Street

Market Deeping

Market Deeping's Market Place has stood the test of time!

Spalding

Sheep Market

The Crescent

Long Sutton

The Market Place

Holbeach

High Street - another area that's stood the test of time