A Victorian view of Fore Street, Bere Alston. The United Free Methodist Chapel, whose main building was inset from the road, is hidden on the left, where the shops end. The building whose wall justs out into the street on the right at the end of the row of buildings, after the sticking-out pub sign (!) is the then Congregational Church (now our United Church). The building extends away from us. The sign hanging out immediately in front of the building in the picture is that of a local inn next door, which is now a private house. The Victoria Inn on the right of the picture is also no longer a public house and was recently, until October 2000, the local bakery. The building on the far right is now the local pharmacy. The one remaining public house (The Edgcumbe) is on the left, just out of the picture at the front. Towards the back of the picture on the left you can see the front part of Holy Trinity churchyard, with its high wall and gravestones.