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A summer's day visit to the country and a ride on an ancient tortoise - simple pleasures!
There is the more familiar red telephone box on the traffic island, a modern post box, and Belisha beacons to aid pedestrians wishing to cross the road.
Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.
It sent ships to aid Edward III's invasion of France during the Hundred Years War.
The Humber keel on the left carries a foresail, an indication that she is sloop-rigged.
With the aid of the architect T J Winperis, in under a year he had built the Marina and Marina Road, which opened on 5 July 1877.
It failed, and the Scots had little alternative but to march directly to the aid of the beleaguered garrison.
At the time of this photograph, the fun fair belonged to Billy Butlin, and the Figure 8 was an exciting ride fifty years ago.
It looks much the same today, with attractive flower- beds, although it has been reduced in size to aid the flow of the traffic.
The pier extensions were constructed with the aid of the 'walking man', a huge metal scaffolding contraption that moved along the seabed to enable the building process.
that he could find no evidence to support the plague story; church records showed no unusual increase in the number of recorded deaths, and that the inhabitants of Newark were in fact sending financial aid
The view down the hill can bring in the hills beyond Belfast Lough; it could once have played a part in communications to bring aid as required.
On the Widnes side of the bridge the world's first double- decker bus service was started in 1909 especially to meet passengers from the bridge and give them a ride into the centre of the town
The flat-roofed Foreshore Centre (left) contained a first-aid room as well as an information bureau, left luggage office and lost children's shelter.
The High Street starts to curve its way around the church, and motorists were no doubt aided by the solid white line in the middle of the road.
But erosion of the coastline prompted the demolition with gunpowder of the church in 1809; the towers, known as the Two Sisters, were sold to Trinity House, who restored them as a navigational aid.
By mid-summer the signpost on the lamp standard would have been removed under new war-time emergency regulations and, in the face of increasing food rationing, the branch of United Dairies on the left
The wealthy Morgan family of Tredegar Park came to its aid and rebuilt parts of the castle and the adjoining house in 1809.
When this photograph was taken, the road had been open for two years, an arid, treeless swathe, but manna from heaven in an urgent world.
When this photograph was taken, the road had been open for two years, an arid, treeless swathe, but manna from heaven in an urgent world.
