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 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 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 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