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

This view shows a wide range of shops including a jeweller, an optician, a chemist, a shoe shop, and cafes and inns.

The card shop and Susan Starr are now occupied by Abbey and Martyn James (butcher`s), whilst Bond & Sherwill and Stead & Simpson maintain the presence of an estate agent and a shoe shop.

Prominent shop signs include Frisby's shoe stores (left of centre) and photographer Percy S Smith (right) between a hairdressers and P J King's Rax Dairy.

On the right, at No 29, Manoah Tucker, the boot and shoe maker, competes with his neighbour, the Public Benefit Boot Company, for the most impressive light fittings.

George Oliver`s shoe shop (left) was one of several Cornish branches in the early 20th century; it still exists in a modernised form as Messrs Timpson.

The glass shades on the Bradford Boot and Shoe Exchange (left) carry interesting advertisements: men's nailed boots cost from 3s 11d.

The glass shades on the Bradford Boot and Shoe Exchange (left) carry interesting advertisements: men's nailed boots cost from 3s 11d.

Along this road passed thousands of cattle with 'cues', or two-part iron shoes, on their feet, along with sheep, pigs and geese, the latter with their feet dipped in tar and sand.

It slumbered until Victorian times when the boot and shoe industry and the manufacture of rush matting arrived. Expansion continued into in the 20th century.

Yorkshire Street was one of the main shopping streets in the town. Along here could be found McDonnell's store, which was the place to go for fresh Irish eggs and home-cured Irish ham.

We are looking down from the Triangle, and we can see the Freeman, Hardy & Willis shoe shop on the left, AJ Perham's Hair Cutting Rooms on the right, and the South Western Gas Board at the end of the street

This busy High Street scene shows many well known shop names. The Home and Colonial (right) was a popular grocery store.

From the Crown and Anchor pub on the left, the A6 trunk road heads away to Hadley Wood and on to Coventry, while on the right, the gleaming frontage of Clark's shoe shop reflects the passing scene.

On the corner of the northern section of Bridge Street stands Lennard's shoe shop.

There were also two butchers, four grocers, a hardware store, a post office, a newsagent, a saddler, a laddermaker, shoe menders, a plumber, a builder/decorator, a forge, a blacksmith, malthouses, hop

For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.

She paid for a water pipeline to be laid from a spring near Sarn to a water tap on the corner of Derwen Road and Court Road.

Here locals could spend their money on furniture, boots and shoes, children's clothes, and ladies' and gents' outfitting. This picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns.

It contained department stores, hotels, furniture shops and shoe shops, and it was noisy with horse-drawn vehicles and advertisement-adorned trams.

The smithy still stands, and looks much now as it did here, when it was occupied by T S Williams, 'Shoeing and General Smith'.

Brooke Cottage was the place to visit for parents and children alike if they had a sweet tooth, for it was formerly the village sweet shop and store. Next door there was a shoe shop and cobbler's.

Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.

The house, probably of the 18th century, with its mix of thatch and stone slates, fine gate piers, and a less substantial gate, masks the Boot and Shoe.