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Caption For Jarrow, Ellison Street C1965

Jarrow's seven-acre pedestrian shopping precinct opened for business in February 1961; it was all part of a grand scheme to rid the town of its cloth cap image and to drag it into the modern age.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall C1965

When this picture was taken, the town hall, with its 225 ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime.

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall C1965

When this picture was taken, the town hall, with its 225ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime

Caption For Leeds, The Town Hall C1965

When this picture was taken, the town hall, with its 225 ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime.

Caption For London, The Embankment From Temple Pier 1890

The Embankment, with its dolphin lampposts dated 1870, is by Bazalgette; in fact it hides the great sewers he built to collect London's effluent and take it further east to rid the city of its appalling

Caption For New Brighton, Victoria Gardens, Pier And Promenade C1915

By ridding itself of this embarrassing eyesore and replacing it with this green oasis, New Brighton was hoping to attract the sort of visitor that it had initially envisaged would come to the resort.

Caption For Llanasa, The Village C1955

He has been for scores of years and can't get rid of the job.

Caption For Kibworth, The Grammar School C1955

The photograph shows the rear of the red brick master's house of c1725, which was originally of two stories until a third was added around 1835, backed by a neat garden and tennis courts.

Caption For Chatham, Buckmore Park Providore C1960

The fingerpost directs visitors to various on- site amenities, including the Warden's Office, the Providore (the shop) with its familiar Walls ice cream sign, and the First Aid and Hospital

Caption For Carbis Bay, Donkey Cart 1928

Here, a family has hired a donkey cart for a ride round the bay

Caption For Bude, Chapel Rock 1890

The flagstaff was installed to aid the piloting of vessels in and out of the harbour.

Caption For Ventnor, The Beach 1899

Victorian Ventnor became a refuge for consumptives, the kind climate aiding their condition.

Caption For Christchurch, The Priory 1900

Legend tells us that a mysterious carpenter aided its construction, and the building was named Christchurch in his honour.

Caption For Ventnor, Esplanade 1892

This shelter aids the growth of luxuriant vegetation in the steep gardens.

Caption For Port Isaac, Fore Street 1906

In this they were aided by Port Isaac's maze of narrow streets, or 'drangs', in which they could run the excise men ragged, communicating by a series of coded knocks on the walls of adjoining houses.

Caption For Cove Hithe, Church And Ruins 1892

The original church was left in ruins after the Civil War, and the smaller replacement was built within the ruins, its tower a useful navigational aid for mariners offshore.

Caption For Chesterfield, Market Hall 1896

In the 1960s and 70s the Borough Council, aided and abetted by Derbyshire County Council, planned to demolish the Market Hall, New Square and The Shambles and sweep away the open market so that the area

Caption For Stourport On Severn, The Promenade C1965

It would appear that there is a queue of people waiting to buy tickets for a ride on the pleasure boat.

Caption For Ombersley, Village 1910

Three veterans of Waterloo are commemorated in the church, including Lord Sandys, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington.

Caption For Sheffield, Endcliffe Woods, Stepping Stones 1900

Hymn singing in Sheffield's public parks was allowed on Whit Sundays, and in 1912 a special dispensation was granted for a memorial concert in aid of the Titanic Disaster Fund.