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Hook had a 'tin tabernacle' church until 1938, when it was replaced.

The Jolly Miller on Hook Road has a skittles evening each week.

At the east end, Lower Close leads into Hook's Walk with its excellent brick and flint-built houses, many rendered and colour-washed.

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

Note the twin hooks from the ceiling.

Two RAC patrolmen saunter past the Hook Road post office (right), ignoring the few motor vehicles on the road.

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

The ground floor served as a row of individual butcher's booths - it is just possible to make out the meat hooks above the two windows on the left.

Dating from 1745, the Old Fishmarket served as a fish and poultry business under a Mr Hook, and later T Tolson and

At the east end, Lower Close leads into Hook's Walk with its excellent brick and flint-built houses, many rendered and colour-washed.

A swinging sign, which was formerly suspended from the two hooks above the roadway, had allegedly been installed there during the reign of Elizabeth 1.

Extended eastwards, to absorb Mount Edgecombe villa, Highcliffe Hotel was run by Miss Hooke and Mrs Kelley.

The town's thatch hooks were kept on the inside wall of the forge; these were used to pull the thatch off if the house was on fire.

The new Vicar of Leeds in 1837, Dr Hook, decided to rebuild the much-altered 16th-century and rather cluttered central church.

Here the Hambleton hookings were available until over-culling ended the supply.

Hook, a sprawling commuter settlement, was expanding 40 years ago, and this picture shows the village stores on the right, the post office next door to it and Lloyds Bank just beyond.

Too many motorists speed by, missing the best parts of this large village on the confluence of the rivers Frome and Hooke.

The curious stone tower attached to the Castle Inn, whose sign hangs over the roadway, stands by a bridge over the Toller, or Hooke, shortly before it flows into the River Frome.

The Shambles were where the butchers had their shops, with open counters on which to display meat and hooks from which to hang joints.

hung from the hook on the extreme end of the wrought iron inn sign.

Today it is still thronged with people but there is not a tramline to be seen; although on many of the buildings throughout the city the anchoring hooks for the tramway overhead wires are evident.

In the 15th century, this little street was full of open-fronted butchers' stalls with the meat being displayed hanging from large hooks.

We are looking up Wedmore's Church Street, past St Mary Magdalene's Church; we can just see the Old Vicarage in the distance.

The Coffee Tavern (right) has survived as part of the Hook and Parrot public house.