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Stead & Simpson, the shoe shop, is located four buildings down from the traffic lights on the right. Just down from there we can see the sign for the New Inn.

The buildig on the right is part of the White Horse public house, with the cottages of Clementina Carpenter, a tobacconist, and John Fosbury, a boot and shoe maker.

The fine modern houses are a world away from the ancient stocks outside Broughton churchyard, 18th-century Toll Bar Cottage, Pinfold Cottage or the smithy where the Mercer family used to shoe horses.

Most of these shops had a long history. Spencer's the stationer's beyond Finkle Street sold postcards, perhaps including Frith's!

The war memorial remains, but many of the small shops have lost their fight against the supermarkets.

Next but one is Stead and Simpson's shoe shop and Dewhurst the butchers, then Cleale's garage with its Ford and AA signs.

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.

Charles found himself in the extraordinary position of having to denounce himself to the Parliamentarian blacksmith who was shoeing his horse.

Poore's Victorian brewery office became Handel House around 1920, with a wide altered shop-front sellling pianos, followed soon after by A B Scott's shoe shop.

Some familiar names here include Lawley's china shop and the shoe-seller Stead & Simpson, both long-established chains still trading today.

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

Boots and shoes are displayed in the shop window on the left.

This is the north end of High Street, which seems to have had an abundance of shoe shops in 1950: Trueform (on the left) was a popular chain for decades, and Olivers (on the right), is still trading today

In the centre of the village, on Affleck Bridge, is the Independent Wesleyan Chapel built in 1874 to serve the Nonconformist industrial workers of the boot and shoe factories.

On the left a baker makes deliveries, while two girls cycle to Arthur and James Fisher's shoe shop, now Butcher's. The buildings beyond the chemists have been radically altered or demolished.

Most of the shops now have blinds compared with the 1895 picture.

Huins Shoes dominated the corner of Market Place for over half a century, but it has gone now, and a bakery occupies the premises.

The motive power of the day - horses - marked their passage quite clearly, and ladies didn't just dirty their shoes; ankle length dresses would easily become soiled.

Behind the cross can be glimpsed the Boot and Shoe Inn, an old coaching inn dating from the 17th century.

In the foreground, awnings are pulled out over Briggs shoe shop and the Maypole Dairy. Next door, under the clock, is Mottrams, established in 1865.

In 1839 Christ Church was opened to cater for the spiritual needs of the expanding suburb of shoe workers to the north of the town.

Barratts shoe shop is to the far right. The town hall has gone from the skyline; not until 1964 was a showpiece shop and office block put on the site, to the horror of some Prestonians.

Stylo Shoe Shop, John Collier ('the window to watch'), Richard Shops and Stead & Simpson are among the many varied shops facing the Market.

This is gripped by wheels that ensure the car stays on the rails, and by brake shoes that provide additional braking on the line's severe gradients.