Christmas is a time for sales. Following the big day itself, shoppers flock to the stores to take advantage of the cut prices. Do you recognise anyone from these photos that were taken at the Churchill Square Christmas sales in 1998?

Matthew Baker takes centre stage as he holds aloft his Next bags as a sign of victory in the sales.

These days sales seem to start earlier and earlier but in the past, Boxing Day was the traditional time to snap up a bargain.

Do any of our readers recognise themselves in our pictures today?

Half price bargains draw the crowds in their numbers as they enjoy all the fantastic deals on offer.

There are plenty of happy shoppers flooding the supermarket, but a number of stores have changed since 1998.

Monica, Debbie and Donna Tates have a whole host of shopping bags with them as you can see in one of the photos above?

One happy shopper also picked up a South Park 1999 calendar. Do you remember what calendar you had on your wall at the turn of 1998?

What stores do you remember from Churchill Square in the Nineties that are no longer there?