Chippenham is one of 23 UK towns and cities to feature in the video, created to mark Small Business Saturday on 7 December. “There’s been an increase in empty shops,” Mr Williams told the BBC.

I love trying to figure out the age of old maps. If there’s a globe in someone’s house, or if I find an old map in a thrift store, I look for clues—the existence of the Soviet Union, if ...