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Barnstaple High Street – and a modern day comparison photo supplied by Michael Parkin.

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Alexandra Road – and a modern day comparison photo supplied by Michael Parkin.

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Looking towards Strand from Queen Anne’s Walk with the Tome Stone in the foreground

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Newport Road

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Barnstaple Square & Albert Clock. Apart from the road layout there’s not an awful lot of difference –

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Castle Quay.

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The old railway bridge over the River Taw, and a very different-looking Strand.

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Swimming Baths at Rock Park.

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Barnstaple Square – Would love to know more about this photo!

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Rock Park Diamond Jubilee celebrations – and a modern day comparison photo supplied by Michael Parkin.

Details of the day’s events marking the Diamond Jubilee, North Devon Journal, June 1897