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In 1968, Timothy Whites was purchased by Boots, the self-service chemist. This premises is now a fashion shop.

The familiar store of Boots is to the left, and W H Smith is on the corner by the car that is turning.

Olivers, the early boot and shoe re­tailer, is on the left with its wares on show all around the doorway. Two doors on is a depot for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.

In an advertisement of 1907 he described his shop as 'the leading house in the District for Keen and Thrifty buyers of all kind of Millinery, Drapery, Ready made clothes, outfitting, Boots etc.

It became yet another of Northamptonshire's boot and shoe manufacturing towns in the later 19th century and was greatly enlarged, with streets of Victorian terrace housing.

There was a joke - especially appreciated in a boot and shoe town - that one cycled to save shoe leather.

Thirty-four years later, we would find Boots the Chemist (now in Eastgate Street) next door to this establishment.

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

Note the cast- iron boot scraper to the left of the doorway on the right. Dinder House was built in Georgian style by the Rev William Somerville in about 1800.

On the left, half way along, are the Art Deco Burtons of 1933 and Boot's mock-Tudor shop of 1913.

Beyond the approaching car, is part of the tall gable wall of the Stanley Works, which was still functioning as a boot and shoe factory in the1950s.

There was a joke - especially appreciated in a boot and shoe town - that one cycled to save shoe leather.

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.

Tuckers Haircutting Rooms (right), next to the bank, have an advertising lantern; on the left, the first property is Jasperly House, now Boots the Chemist, but at the time of the photograph a wine

Following Law's closure, the top three shops became Lancaster's shoe shop, selling a wide range of shoes and boots; they are still trading there, but with an expanded range of goods.

The 1950s Boots (left) is on the site of the Anchor Temperance Coffee Tavern. The taller building is Atterton & Ellis, an ironmonger's.

Two doors along is Boots, 'the largest chemist in the world', and just beyond that Sainsbury's, with its distinctive shop interiors, spacious, practical and hygienic, worlds away from the small, cramped

Boots & David Lewis had led the way by being cash-only shops; by 1899, the trend of negotiating over a reduction in the marked price had almost died out.

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.

Its grandeur recalls the pre-boot and shoe era of the sheep trade, from which the town gained its earlier wealth.

These men are suitably dressed for foul conditions in their thigh-length sea boots and thick fishermen's ganseys.

The market continues, but it is now more of a flea market and car-boot sale.

Further down is Boots the Chemist, the Midland Bank, the Lamb Inn and Moors Garage.

Peace reigns along the seafront, where E Atkins, a house decorator, has his premises on the left with Mercer & Son, boot makers and repairers, next door.