The photograph shows Epping High Street around 1905 before St John’s Tower was built.
The Victoria Buildings on the right were at the centre of the town`s weekly market from 1899 until it was demolished in 1966 and replaced by the Co-op supermarket.
Today the site houses M&S .
Gary Stone is a local historian (Instagram: @eppinghistory)
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