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This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.
In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.
The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.
Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.
In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different
Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping
Opposite the old Salisbury Arms public house in Fore Street stands St Etheldreda's church.
The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons
Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.
Having completed the tour of Daventry town centre, we now look at some of the 20th-century housing and industrial development.
In 1815 Sir George Jerningham began paying it the sum of £60 a year, and, together with his brother Edward, built a new church on the site.
The story of how the town got its name is an unusual one.
Dr James was not one to spare the rod, but his successor, Dr Henry Ingles, was known as 'The Black Tiger' for the severity of his rule.
Meanwhile down in the town, away from the lush gardens and villas of Amersham Hill, the furniture industry was modernising into the factory system.
Inspection of the sale catalogues belonging to the people who were at the auction shows bids creeping up and then the lot being withdrawn as it had not reached the reserve price.
The first official record of a petition for a navigation light appears in the Parliamentary Papers of the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, written during the reign of William III and Queen
Colchester was also visited by the Roman Emperor himself, who considered the capture of this capital vital to the success of the conquest from AD43 onwards.
The furniture legacy from this period can be found mainly in the western part of town: many are relatively small two-storey structures up to 100 feet long, and date mostly from the first two decades
The former stables of the Archbishop's Palace, for long believed to be a tithe barn. The
The photographer is now positioned east of Franklin's Outfitters, since demolished.
