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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Although we are just around the corner from St Austell Bay, this photograph gives us a good view of the prominent day mark erected in 1832 on the Gribbin Head as an aid for shipping entering the

The towers were purchased by Trinity House in 1810 as an aid to navigation.

The public were provided with a diving board, dry and wet-side changing cubicles, a children's paddling pool, a first aid room and a staff mess room, which was provided by the Chippenham Amateur Swimming

Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.