Simon Haines has put together a book called Taunton Through Time - a fascinating collection of images plotting the county town’s history over the years.

Here he shares some of those images with Somerset Life.Taunton Through Time is published by Amberley Publishing, to see all of the pictures, simply view the gallery to the right hand side of this page.

Somerset Life readers can get 20% off the web price at amberleybooks.comJust add the book to the basket, proceed to checkout, then add the code ‘SOMLI’ in the discount code box.