Image Ref : U3AP 0005.tif

U3AP 0005

This is part of a collection relating to a project of the U3A Totnes Photography Group in May 2023. The project, 'Totnes Old and New' was to take an old photo from the Totnes Image Bank and take a new photo of the present view as near as possible from the same viewpoint. The original photo was taken shortly after the Great Fire of Totnes in January 1903. The fire began at 42 High Street, Totnes but fortunately did not cross the High Street. The photograph shows people inspecting the damage, with St Mary's Church in the background. After later being rebuilt as the Market Hall, itself destroyed in a later fire, the area is now Birdwood Court, and the modern photograph also shows 42 High Street, now the Dartington Trust Bookshop.