Standing on the banks of the River Nene the thriving town of Northampton has come a long way from its industrial past in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries when its wealth was built on the dominant boot & shoe industry. Since then small independent family-run retailers have given way to large national chain stores & shopping centres such as the Grosvenor & modern shops cafes & bars fill the lively town centre. Yet despite these changes Northampton still retains many of its original buildings & monuments including the Guildhall the Sessions House Becket's Well & Bradlaugh's Monument. In Northampton Then & Now Philip Sawford compares archive images of the Northampton of the past with full-colour modern photographs of the town today exploring just how much has changed as well as finding unexpected similarities.