GALLERY
Frome is not really this quite.
The photographs were taken early on a Sunday morning

A Town Saved by Neglect

In the early 1700s Frome was an important commercial centre, its prosperity based on the wool trade. With a population of 10,000 it was four times the size of Bath. Now Bath is famous and Frome forgotten but, as John Dawson wrote in the London Daily Telegraph: Frome, like many a historic French or Italian town, has been saved by neglect.

down cheap street

up cheap street

king street

st.johns 

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market place

up cathrine hill

down cathrine hill