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The red brick Ashley House, with the large white gable (centre), was built for Joseph Simpson in 1875; due to its cost, it was known as Simpson's Folly.

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

The clock above Stead & Simpson's shop was used by the tram drivers to check their timing. Wilkinson's hardware store now stands where Stead & Simpson then stood.

Also on the left, outside the shop to let, we can see a Stead and Simpson delivery cycle; Stead and Simpson were an early chain store selling boots and shoes, and they were here until the late 1990s.

This shows the bank designed by Archibald Simpson (1839), topped with a statue of Demeter, and a large block of houses by John Smith (c1810), showing Smith's characteristic recessed, curved corner.

On the skyline is the Carlyon Bay Hotel which, when completed in 1930, was one of the fashionable spots to stay, with guests that included Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson.

On the steeple of the church is a statue of Habbie Simpson, a well-known piper of the late 16th century.

The Trevenen's House later became Simpson's Garage, visible next to the Central Restaurant in picture No 73267.

Stead and Simpson have traded from a shop on this site since at least 1898.

Stead and Simpson's and Oliver's now sell their shoes in New George Street.

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 shop on the extreme left was Simpsons, fruiterers, greengrocers and florists, who gave Green Shield Stamps with all purchases.

This area had been transformed since the 1863 sandstorms when the sandhills in front of Simpson's Hotel and the cottages in Butcher's Row and Welsh's Row were replaced by these solid buildings.

Forty-five years later, Mrs Wallis Simpson was resident in Felixstowe during the abdication crisis.

Still's stores (right) later became Simpson's antique shop, and since 1990 it has been a private house.

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

Union Buildings were designed by Archibald Simpson (1822). The tall windows between the pilasters on the first and second storeys were to light the reading room of the Atheneum, a gentlemen's club.

They later sold Dak trousers and Simpson clothes.

Stead & Simpson is no longer on the left, but at the top of the street on the right.

On the corner is Robert Critten, 'chymist'; further along the High Street are Stead & Simpson and the Crown Hotel.

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.

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.

The building on the extreme left is Stead & Simpson's shoe factory, one of the last shoe manufacturers to survive in Daventry, once home to many factories and craftsman.

At the end of the war there were 520 girls on the registers, many of whom will remember the headmistress, Miss J C Simpson, who presided until 1962.