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This view shows the tram tracks that spread along the city's main thoroughfares. On the left is Oliver's, one of the early chainstores, offering cheap boots and shoes.

Two public houses, the Royal Arms and the Princess Hotel are visible as well as two shoe shops, a jewellers and a butcher's shop.

Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The large four- storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe

On the left is the Electricity Centre; Selright, a ladies' fashion shop: Topping's shoe shop; and Anscombes the photographer's. The delicate cresting over the shops has gone.

By this time the small shop was under serious threat. Drifut's, on the extreme left, is offering customers coloured sand shoes and baseball boots to augment its traditional old-style repair business.

By this time the small shop was under serious threat. Drifut's, on the extreme left, is offering customers coloured sand shoes and baseball boots to augment its traditional old-style repair business.

Ahead is the Tiger's Head and the Edwardian shoe shop of 1912. The magnificent 15th-century church tower dominates the Mildenhall skyline.

It began as an agricultural community; it later developed as an industrial centre, concentrating on rush mats, lace, the quarrying of ironstone, and the manufacture of boots and shoes.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy and Willis's shoe

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

The building behind the concrete bus shelter, No 17, was a shoe maker's run by John Lewis & Son from the late 19th century until 1914.

Higham Ferrers is undoubtedly the smartest town, architecturally, in the boot and shoe belt that runs east along the River Nene from Wollaston to Thrapston.

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

This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

Above the ground floor of the shoe shop, John Farmer Ltd, can be seen a fire mark indicating the many years that the building has stood there.

The ornately decorated Weaver to Wearer shop premises on the right is now a cafe bar; the Queen's Head pub next to it has been replaced by a modern shoe shop.

Where A Fryer once sold boots and shoes (left), there is now a private house.

It was originally associated chiefly with shoe manufacture, though these days its main industries focus on breakfast cereal and aluminium casks for the brewery trade.

To the right of the K Shoe Shop is a corner of Heelas' store, a noted local department store, now part of John Lewis.

This photograph shows Pier Gap prior to the building of the 'Venetian Bridge'.

The large building in the centre was erected in 1879 on the site of an earlier small shop.

Austin's Library is now the Sue Ryder charity shop, Allsworth's ironmonger's, owned by Harry Hole, and immediately beyond, the Edwardian world of Martin & Triggs, Outfitters.