THIS very early twentieth century photograph shows a busy and bustling George Street in Pontypool looking down from The Cross towards Osborne Road.

One wonders if Mr Davies, Solicitor in his first floor offices (left of picture) was ever disturbed by noise from the ‘Harrison’s for Teeth’ on the ground floor, or if it was indeed ‘a painless system’?

The Bath House Inn (right of picture) was a popular public house at that time, the rear of which is approximately where the New Look shop is today.

The road is now a pedestrian area and the properties on the right have all moved back somewhat from 100 years ago but, with Crane Street, it still forms the heart of the town.

This photograph is one of the museum's collection of photographs, negatives, modern and glass plate slides in its Dobell-Moseley Library and Archive, which is available to the public for research, by appointment.

Nostalgia is provided by Torfaen Museum.