New Zealand - Hastings - “The Corner Shop” on the corner of Hastings and Heretaunga Streets - Possibly in the 1920s or 1930s Heretaunga Street - The main arterial road through Hastings City running from north-west to south-east - Regarded as Hastings' main street from as early as the 1880s. - Suffered several disasters including major fires in February 1893 and May 1907 - Devastated by the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 3 February 1931 (Reference: Wikipedia) Hastings - One of the two major urban areas in Hawke's Bay - The population of Hastings is 70,600 (2018) - About 18 kilometres inland of the coastal city of Napier - The administrative centre of the Hastings District - Since the merger of the surrounding and satellite settlements, Hastings has grown to become one of the largest urban areas in Hawke's Bay. - Hastings District is a food production region. - The fertile Heretaunga Plains surrounding the city produce stone fruits, pome fruit, kiwifruit and vegetables, and the area is one of New Zealand's major red wine producers. (Reference: Wikipedia) Image source: Corner Shop https://knowledgebank.org.nz/still_image/corner-shop Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.