TAVISTOCK Library is hosting a fascinating exhibition on loan from Tavistock Museum on the history of the shops in the town.

It is a photographic display of the shops that were once in the town accompanied with what is there today.

Linda Elliott has been collecting this information for the last 20 years.

Not only are wonderful photographs of the old shops on show, some from as early as 1890 but also advertisements and invoices etc.

Many advertisements give a picture of the town as it used to be, such as an advertisement placed by the council from 1872 asking for tenders from people who would be willing to collect the dung and other refuse from the streets of Tavistock.

Another, also from 1872, advertised that you could buy a ticket for six pounds and six shillings to take you to New York, Boston and Quebec.

The exhibition will be running for a month.