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On the left is Scales & Sons boot and shoe establishment, formerly Scales and Salter. The building next to Scales was demolished and the site redeveloped for Spencer & Co.

This street of small shops is showing signs of commercialism.

Raunds used to be a bustling manufacturing centre for shoes, but most of the factories have now gone.

This view, taken in the direction of Stonehouse, shows some high street names that are still in business today. Stead and Simpson's and Oliver's now sell their shoes in New George Street.

At Darlington his shoes gave out, and he had to buy another pair. He later told Drummond that they took some breaking in and left his feet sore and blistered for several days.

At this date it contains Sturgeon's, boot and shoe shop, and the International Stores.

The large four-storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe shops. Today it is the Woolwich Building Society.

More national chain stores have moved into the town by now; they include K shoes, and Timothy Whites where Boons once traded.

This is not one of Northamptonshire's most attractive boot and shoe towns - and what old buildings remain are now isolated by new buildings, some visible in this view.

Once a coal business and a shoemaker's, it acquired its name from the last occupation - the Boot and Shoe Inn. Opposite was the village spring and pump. Note the thatched roof gives way to tiles.

The houses on the right were often occupied by boot and shoe makers, including John and Thomas Tull, Thomas Albury and George Parsons.

On the left is the corner of Lloyds Bank; then comes Siddal and Kirby's shoe shop, the Wool Shop, now Nationwide with a new shop front, and the Midland Bank.

Sills shoe repairers on the left is now a chiropodist – continuity of a sort.

Just beyond its swinging sign is the entrance to Willett & Sons' shoeing forge.

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

Looking across the green, on the right-hand side we can see the boot and shoe shop of the Foord family, and in the centre the butcherís shop of H J Harvey.

The old corner house (right) is occupied by Hope Brothers General Outfitters whilst opposite, as for many years, stands Oliver's Shoes.

This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

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.

New shop-fronts adorn the premises occupied by Phillips Shoes Limited, DER Television, and the estate agents Locke & Vince on the right, but further along some of the original shop premises survive

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.

The High Street approach to the Market Place is seen here flanked by the Easiephit shoe shop and Woolworth's on one side, and the Rose & Crown Hotel on the other.

Did the photographer capture a genuine moment, or was she posed?

Here, it is Frederick Pluck's - supplier of boots, shoes, woollens and tailoring.