Caption For Blackpool, Winter Gardens 1894
When Sarah Bernhardt was engaged to play the female lead in 'The Lady of the Camellias', she had so much difficulty in making herself heard that she walked out at the end of the first act and never went
Caption For Bath, 1935
Bath Street connected the Pump Room with the Cross Bath of 1784, and was designed by Thomas Baldwin; the foundation stone was laid in 1791 as part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act works.
Caption For Widnes, Victoria Square C1950
These
were not at all regulated at first, so that the air here was
particularly foul – in 1862 the Alkali Act was passed to
ensure stricter control of the conditions under which
people worked.
Caption For Bury, Technical School 1895
Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).
Caption For Whitworth, Facit C1955
Facit, to the north
of Whitworth, was
elected for a church
under the Rochdale
Vicarage Act, 1866.St
John`s was consecrated
on 1 December 1871.
Caption For Bethesda, High Street C1955
history: the villagers were united by the infamous Penrhyn Lockout, when the quarry owner, Lord Penrhyn, locked his workers out, bringing them ultimately to heel by great hardship and starvation, an act
Caption For Northwich, Swing Bridge 1900
An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal
Caption For Aberaeron, The Harbour C1955
Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of broad, airy streets was laid out.
Caption For Sutton, Public Baths 1903
These baths are around the
corner from where Throwley
Road once turned to the north
(it is now Throwley Way and
acts as an inner relief road or
High Street by-pass).