Retired teacher Raymond Moody has been compiling histories of Burford for many years. His latest book, Burford Through Time (Amberley, £14.99), has a short introduction, but mainly consists of old photographs — many of them culled from the Tolsey Museum’s collection — juxtaposed with modern ones.

One of the author’s themes is the way the town was preserved as a medieval market town because the railways passed by and the agricultural depression in Victoria’s reign trapped the town in poverty. Two of the pictures hshow the lower High Street in the late 19th century, perhaps in the lowest point of its disrepair, says the author, and with the 21st-century bustle. As he says: ”Until the motor car brought the world here again, the poverty of the town spared Burford much red brick and a surround of villas.”