Description

Identification note: All photographs are annotated on the reverse with details including contents, source and date.

Summary: 1 - Photograph of a plan of the Brittox, 1830, 2 - photograph of Dore's Plan, 1759 (partial), 3 - Photograph of the earliest town map, showing Bishop's Cannings (the chapelry of St. James) before it became part of Devizes in 1830's, 1637, 4 - The Bear Assembly Room, 1857 which was replaced by the Corn Exchange, 5 - The Corn Exchange, 1954, 6 - Photograph of a drwaing by Herbert Railton of the Bear Hotel, 1887, 7 - Photograph of a drawing of the Bear Hotel yard, 1906, 8 - The Bear Hotel, 9 - The National Provincial Bank and the Bear Hotel, 1956, 10 - The Bear Hotel, 1959, 11 - The Brittox, 1954, 12 - The Market House and Little Brittox, 1959, 13 - Castle Lane, 1954, 14 - Photograph of an etched print of St. John's church "Showing the unholy state of the churchyard, 15 - Photograph of a painting of the Toll Gate entrance from London Road, 1836, 16 - The Toll Gate, Wick, 1959, 17 - Part of the Kennett and Avon Canal in Devizes showing the flight of 29 locks, 1929.