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The Mumbles railway began as a tramroad authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1804; it carried limestone and coal until one of the original shareholders, Benjamin French, used a horse-drawn wagon to carry

The medieval river bridge was replaced by the Improvement Commissioners set up by Act of Parliament in 1803.

At Christmas 1175 the Norman lord, William de Braose, invited Seisal ap Dyfnwal and other Welsh nobles to a banquet.

A new dock was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1881 and was opened in 1882, partly paid for by the Great Northern Railway, who extended a branch line to it.

The arrival of the railway in 1867, and the 1872 National Bank Holiday Act, opened Walton up to everybody.

iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated a New Town in 1950 under the New Towns Act

The act would include songs, jokes, mime and monologues.

In 1898, when Parliament passed an Act for Manchester to have its own University, it was Owen's College which became the core of that University.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone

The act would feature songs, jokes, mime and monologues.

The old sanitorium was not big enough and one of the first acts of the new head, J F Wolfenden, was to build a new and large sanatorium on Stockerston Road.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

The rectory also fell into ruin – the ruins act as an unusual gateway to the new rectory in the background. One rector presided for 66 years. The Bishop of Whalley lived here in 1920.

AT the start of the Victorian era, all the roads around Enfield had been turnpiked. These were under the care of the Commissioners for Turnpike Roads, who charged a uniform toll of 3d.

Hest Bank was the seaward side of the village, right at the southern side of the mouth of the River Kent. At one time, the area was referred to as Slyne with Hest.

Business interests in the town realised they had to do something, and a canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1793.

The nave of St Mary's acted as the parish church for the town, while the large chancel was used by a secular College of Canons, responsible to the King, whose duty was to pray for members of the

The bandstand was the original feature at the end of the pier, and the Royal Italian Band (advertised on one of the kiosks on the landward end) were one of the first visiting bands to have

In the wake of the war, under the auspices of the Housing Act of 1919, the country set about building 'homes fit for heroes'.

In 1882, under the Salford Improvement Act the 22ft-wide bridge was made 77ft-wide to eliminate this bottleneck, and the river was culverted for over 250ft.