175 Years On City Is a Very Different Place ; Painting Reveals the Bustling High Street of the 1820s

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IT is an Exeter of horse-drawn carriages, livestock in the streets and hawkers selling their wares -- an Exeter that was soon to be lost forever.

Change was on the way and just like today it brought complaints that small shops were being swept away. Yet, before they were, the bustling High Street scene was captured by the day's digital cameraman -- a painter.

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175 Years On City Is a Very Different Place ; Painting Reveals the Bustling High Street of the 1820s

The unsigned work is a vibrant, eyewitness account called Market Day in Exeter High Street in 182...

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