About 133 years separate these pictures of Epping High Road.
Sheep being herded on Epping High Road outside the Thatched House in c1890.
Epping High Road today (Image: Gary Stone)
The town was dependent on farming in the 19th century and farm animals were a common sight until the weekly market stopped selling livestock in the early 1960s.
- Gary Stone, Twitter: @eppinghistory
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