Bangor High Street, or Stryd Fawr, is reputedly the longest High Street in Wales and UK. But I cant believe that without further evidence! Although the picture seems to suggest the opposite, it was in fact very busy each time I visited this small Welsh city. Bangor has its fair number of charity shops but in 2010 what town doesn't? And surely everybody, other than town planners, know that once you build a shopping centre (in Bangor's case the Deiniol Shopping Centre) many of the traditional High Street shops will have to close down.