When I last visited the street I lived on from the age of 10 ,in Alfreton where I was brought up ,the thing that I noticed immediately was the number of cars. parked there. I used to walk that street to and from school and then there was probably a couple of vehicles parked at the most.Now there were cars parked on both sides of the road for the entire length.It must be a nightmare now for the school bus drivers delivering or collecting pupils every morning and late afternoon. The main changes I've noticed in the area I've resided in for the last 40 plus years isn't so much the shops(which @Chris has already described) but the number of foreign residents here now.I walked to the local shops last week and realised how multiracial the area has now become.