The coronavirus pandemic has changed the face of the high street in the six months since Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the UK into lockdown on March 23.
Here is a snapshot of how the high street has changed captured by the photographers at the PA news agency.
Signage outside a greengrocers on the High Street in Henleaze, Bristol, advises shoppers to wear face coverings (Ben Birchall/PA)A man holds a cigarette in his mouth despite wearing a mask in Dundee (Jane Barlow/PA)Shoppers walk through Huyton Village Shops in Knowsley, Merseyside, many of which are closed, six months on from lockdown (Peter Byrne/PA)A woman wears a full face visor as she conducts a survey in the relatively empty shopping area of East Street, Bedminster, Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)A man wearing a face covering walks past graffiti with the slogan Mask On covering a vacant shop window in the High Street in Worcester (David Davies/PA)A woman walks past a Rainbows for the NHS mosaic made up of pictures and stories submitted during the pandemic at Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries (Andrew Milligan/PA)A sign at a crossing point in Glasgow city centre aims to help limit the spread of Covid-19 (Andrew Milligan/PA)Customers in a socially distanced queue outside Nationwide Building Society in the High Street in Worcester (David Davies/PA)A greeting card shop in Islington, north London, displays reusable face covers in the window (Yui Mok/PA)A social distancing information sign in front of a Marks and Spencer shop window in Reading, Berkshire (Steve Parsons/PA)People walk past a closed-down Laura Ashley shop, with messages from staff and customers in the shop window, on the High Street in Winchester, Hampshire (Andrew Matthews/PA)A notice on a billboard encourages customers to help keep firms in business in Glasgow city centre (Andrew Milligan/PA)Market stalls remain open at the Moor Open Market in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, but face coverings are a common sight (Tim Goode/PA)The newly pedestrianised Union Street in Dundee has been painted with a colourful zebra crossing-style mural to encourage people to explore the street (Jane Barlow/PA)A person casts a shadow walking past a social distancing information sign painted on the pavement in Leeds city centre (Danny Lawson/PA)
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