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The High St in Dorchester - even in the 1920's horse and carts were still being used.<br />
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Extraordinary photo album reveals Thomas Hardy as personal tour guide around his most famous novel.<br />
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A personalised photograph album documenting a guided tour of 'Casterbridge' that novelist Thomas Hardy gave a literary friend has emerged almost 100 years later.<br />
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The famous author showed playwright John Drinkwater the real-life locations that inspired him to write the classic 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge.<br />
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Mr Drinkwater took photographs of various venues that feature prominently in the novel.<br />
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He also captured some of the last images of Hardy who died two years later.