From a May Fair in 1880 to the advent of the motor car in 1923, local historian and businessman Eric Lewis Pugh has put together a fascinating album of old photos of Hay-on-Wye. If you've got any shots of the town in days gone by, you can send them to us and we'll add them to the website.
Before and after... the same view as the previous photo of High Town in 2002. All the shops in the middle of the photograph above were demolished in the 1870s.
Eric Lewis Pugh has also written a profile of Hay-on-Wye where his family have lived for more than 150 years.
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