THE ?Those were the days? picture reproduced in the Times of August 19 is a slightly cut-down copy of a lithograph by W Taylor after a sketch made in 1830 by Mrs Worsley, printed by C Moody of 257 Holborn.

It is of the Reeve at the top of West Street, entitled The Rive. Owing to a misprint, this is given as ?The river, Tavistock? in Somers Cocks? ?Devon topographical prints?, which is confusing as the river does not appear. I do not know who Mrs Worsley was.

The building at the right of the picture was a school at the time, built on the site of a Methodist meeting house that was formerly an almshouse. Later it became a school of art, and was rebuilt as the church hall; eventually it was replaced by the present apartment block.

Mary Freeman

Parkwood Road

Tavistock