AN exhibition of photographs featuring scenes from Swindon of yesteryear is being shown across the county.

Life Through A Wiltshire Eye features 76 images from Wiltshire County Council's Historic Photograph and Print Collection.

Many of the photographs, taken in the 1960s and 1970s, capture changing times and a disappearing way of life.

One is an image of farm worker Ralph Swatton hand shearing sheep at Burderop near Wroughton.

The practice is from a bygone era as electric clippers are now used.

Another picture is of the Great Western Railway workers' hostel in Faring-don Road. It later became a Methodist chapel and then the Great Western Railway Museum.

Paul Connell, museums officer at Wiltshire County Council, said: "For me the exhibition is about the county of Wiltshire its landscape, buildings, places, and the people who make it what it is."

The exhibition will be open to the public at libraries throughout the county.

In January it will be at Trowbridge, while it moves to Melksham in February.

Later in the year it will move to libraries in Chip-penham, Warminster, Mal-mesbury, Corsham and Lackham.