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Moot House, with its mature trees, paved area and sculpture (left), is at one end, while the other square is used for commercial purposes.

Here we see the top of the High Street, which is little changed today.The porchway on the left belongs to the Moot Hall, which was the town hall until 1974 and is now open to the public.

This view shows Burton's memorial standing at the top of the High Street on the spot where the original Moot Hall stood in 1788.

The building on the right side of the square with the white quoins is the Moot Hall of 1708, rebuilt in replica in 1967.

This 15th-century building was either an early Moot (Town) Hall or a Guildhall.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

The Moot Hall in Elstrow dates back to the 17th century and now houses a most interesting museum which commemorates Bunyan's life.

The decaying Moot Hall of 1769 dominates this view of the market square. It was later restored and now houses the Daventry Museum, the town mayor's parlour and the tourist information centre.

The Market Place is dominated by the Moot Hall, rebuilt by the Bedford Estate in 1852 in Jacobethan style with the re-used clock cupola from the 18th-century predecessor bursting from the roof in a bizarre

East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street.

The High Street served as the main thoroughfare until the bypass, first mooted before the war, was eventually built.

The 20th century brought objections from residents when further changes were mooted. Even the erection of a platform in the Gardens intended for the Rose Queen crownings was not wanted.

If you should ask how the fishermen reached their cobles moored in the river, notice the steps (not to mention the mooring ropes).

Boots is not shy of advertising itself - no less than four signs are visible here, two of them huge.

along the street and noting the names of some of the cottages (Shoemakers and Tanners, for example), one is reminded of another important local industry – leather and the production of boots

Further along, across the road, enlargement of the photograph reveals a branch of Boots – Boots is still on this site today, but in a new shop that was built in the 1960s.

Across the street is the New Inn, Boots the chemist, and Upson & Co, 'The Great Boot Providers'.

On the right is Boots the Chemist's first shop in Pelham Street, opened in 1892. This was Jesse Boot's finest shop to date.

The name of the Crispin Inn in Great Longstone recalls one of the village's former specialities, boot and shoe making - St Crispin is the patron saint of that trade.

Most of the national retailers (Woolworth`s, Boots and Sainsbury`s) came to Haywards Heath in the 1930s.The electrification of the railway certainly helped.

If you needed to buy a pair of boots in 1855, the local shoemaker would have perhaps fifteen or so pairs for show.

The tall stone building occupied by Boots has been a chemist's for a considerable time.

Next to Boots came the old-established drapers Lee & Clarke, then came the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Co, Gaskell's the butchers, Hallett the jewellers (goldsmiths and silversmiths), Carter's Cafe and

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.