Remember the 119-year-old Taunton firm whose premises were taken over by the Coal Orchard pub?

But can you remember what the building housed before?

The three storeys were occupied by builders' merchants Spiller and Webber before Wetherspoons took over the ground and first floor - the top floors is occupied by the Activate gym.

Spiller and Webber finally left the scene in Taunton in 2009, when it closed its base in Victoria Street, shortly after vacating its Bridge Street premises - a victim of the recession after 119 years in the county town.

The firm’s roots stretched back to April 10, 1890, when George Spiller and Charles Webber began selling ranges, stoves, nails, locks and coffin furniture.

The firm’s ‘trademark’ penny farthing bicycle was bought shortly before the shop opened by Mr Spiller and was repaired and restored after it was discovered years later in a yard.

The Spiller and Webber Penny Farthing

In the shop’s early days in Bridge Street, it displayed its wares on the pavement outside as well as hanging from the ceiling inside.

Many products were not seen at all but were wrapped in brown paper packages and kept on shelves.

Customers would take their selected goods to an office in the middle of the shop and an invoice would be written, but they would not pay for them.

The invoices were passed to an inner office where the goods were priced and the sale entered into huge ledgers by clerks sitting on high stools.

The invoices were put into envelopes and delivered by hand once a week.