Search Results

It was advertised rather grandly as Boot Metropole.

Behind the cross can be glimpsed the Boot and Shoe Inn, an old coaching inn dating from the 17th century.

The projecting sign of Boots (centre) certainly helped to advertise its presence.

Window displays include net curtaining, boots and shoes and hats. The shopfront and street corner have gas lamps, and the small front gardens have wood fencing.

Window displays include net curtaining, boots and shoes and hats.The shopfront and street corner have gas lamps, and the small front gardens have wood fencing.

Trade is quiet; one hopes the large stall well-stocked with boots and shoes has done better business earlier.

Boots has moved a few shops further on.

This view shows some of the pre-war commercial rebuilding, including an Art Deco Burton's on the left and a Neo-Georgian Boots.

Just to the north of the church, the buildings on the west side of the road take on a varied appearance, the most special being the Three Swans Hotel, which has its origins from at least the early 17th

Boots the Chemist have moved to replace Dates the ironmongers.

while Delph supported an agent for the Genuine Tea Co (John Brook), an attorney (Jonas Ainley), and an auctioneer (Timothy Bradbury), together with a baker, blacksmith, coal merchant, and at least four boot

In 1914 many soldiers marched off to war wearing locally-made boots.

The first building on the left has been replaced by Boots. Juby's is now partly the post office.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

the left are the Bazaar of the Misses Parsonson, Robert Joy's carpet warehouse, John Payn, stationer and printer, William Brampton, chemist, and James Read, furniture dealer (both these latter are now Boot's

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile's gent's outfitters; in the centre are the Tiger's Head, landlord Edward Smith, and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

Note the unmarked and unmade road, the baby high chairs on sale on the right, the coffe tavern beyond it and Olivers, the boot and shoe chain, further down the street on the right.

Cars and a motor bus line the wide street, where familiar names of today like Boots and Kodak are making an appearance.

On the right Olivers, 'The Largest Retailer of Boots in the World', survives; it is still selling shoes as Timpsons. Beyond is now a 1960s Woolworths.

Here, numerous sign boards displayed around the entrance publicise forthcoming events, whilst some of the hoardings advertise popular brands still around today, Boots the Chemist and Oxo.

By Bull Beck Bridge is the Black Bull Inn, where a cat sits beside a boot-scraper, perhaps waiting for opening time?

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

Higham Ferrers is undoubtedly the smartest town, architecturally, in the boot and shoe belt that runs east along the River Nene from Wollaston to Thrapston.