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Posted: November 19, 2018
Father Christmas at the Museum
Father Christmas will be visiting the Museum on Thursday 6 December from 530pm as part of Okehampton's Edwardian... Read more >
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WWI Centenary Exhibition of art and literacy from 30 October – 3 December.Free admission to the exhibition
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Photographs like this one are quite rare - people tended not to record building construction! Anyway, our latest dip into the archive follows the theme of Fore Street, Okehampton
Following on from yesterday’s post with a bustling market in Okehampton in 1909, here’s an earlier photo from the 1860s showing the block of buildings which once stood against St James Chapel and which were demolished in 1884.
The high-roofed house is Mount Ribbon (a grocer & hairdressers), the second one was James House and the third Treweens House. John Legge Newcombe sold drapery, drugs and stamps at Treweens House from 1857 to 1875.