About 133 years separate these pictures of Epping High Road.
Sheep being herded on Epping High Road outside the Thatched House in c1890.
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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