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Hilton's shop is still a boot and shoe shop, but Mr O'Connor is the owner.

On the right is Robert Mattingley's clothing and boot warehouse, and the Anchor, kept by Robert Angier.

This view is almost identical to R84007 (page 28), but the photographer has stepped back to include Huins on Market Place corner and its neighbours, E A Hodges and Boots the Chemist.

Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.

Early chain stores, including Home and Colonial Stores, International Tea Stores and Boots the Chemist, were all represented in Strood High Street by now; but older shops, like Mence Smith (on the left

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.

Frith's intrepid photographer sought a high vantage point at Boots Corner for this view down Buttermarket Street.

In the background a horse-drawn cart delivers ales and beers, and K Boots and Shoes are sold at the corner shop in the background.

They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled clothes and battered boots, and were probably bought their penny treats in return for posing for the photographer.

Boots, on the left of the picture, later became the premises of a linen shop. The church's magnificent portico was completed in 1701.

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.

Sedges and reed mace hide wading birds, coot and grebe, whilst swans and shelducks are not averse to sheltering under the bridge in stormy weather.

A boot scraper is visible in the porch-way. There is an array of noticeboards on the wall opposite.

The building to the right in photograph 33258 has, by 1904, been replaced by the elaborate buff terra cotta Flemish-style Boots building.

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

Note the stores - Bevans, Bateman & Sons and the more famous store, Boots.

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.

Shops like Boots (extreme far left) relocated there. The baronial revivalist Gothic building on the left afforded smart premises for the Liverpool Bank.

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.

Wollaston is a small market town with a charter granted in 1260 and with the remains of a motte and bailey castle.

Although the street layout at this point is the same today, most of the buildings have changed beyond recognition. On the left, note the interesting top hat trade sign above a shop awning.

Then there was the shop of Harvey Pearse, bookseller and stationer; John Hurst the music seller, pianoforte and harmonium dealer; Williamson's the jewellers and silversmiths; and F C Greenwood, boot and

It is interesting that in the right foreground is a Belisha Beacon, a common sight before the introduction of zebra crossings.The familiar store of Boots is to the left, and W H Smith is on the corner

Boots advertises its developing and printing service (left), and Stead and Simpson, the shoe store, is next door. Most shops still have awnings, ready to pull down if the sun gets strong.