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Market Street c1955 Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed

The nearby medieval vicarage has a priest hole, often used during the Catholic persecution that followed the Reformation, as this, like many other villages in Lancashire doggedly clung onto the Old Faith

Note how the road and the river are sandwiched into the narrow gorge cut by the River Derwent following the Ice Age.

The Library was opened in May 1936, following the purchase of the land from the Southern Railway.

This lovely pastoral scene on the Nonsuch Park estate demonstrates that although the internal combustion engine was making rapid progress in the years following the First World War, most farming communities

Following a surprise attack, Raby fell to the Parliamentarians, but not to be outdone Sir George Vane retook it, and managed to hold onto it despite being besieged in 1648.

Now a hotel, the Old Court House was built by Sir Robert Brooke - he had bought the estate for £946 (an enormous sum of money for the times) following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII

brought heavy industry to the region (indeed, they were for a long time the major employers in the town), it was not long before other industries associated with engines and heavy machinery followed

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year.

Then follows the workshops of Uppingham School (1897) and across the lane the primary school with safety rails outside. The school had only about ten more years of life.

The annual fair was inevitably accompanied by excessive drinking, and the first man found sleeping it off in the hedgerows the following morning was given the honour.

It is sad to see so many pictures of this era showing a preponderance of women, following the loss of so many men in the Great War which finished five years before.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

Extensions were added to the palace over the following century after it was first built.Then in 1647 Bishopthorpe was sold to a Colonel White, who added further to the building.

To the left of the man coming up the road is the building which was the town's first station, but it could not handle through traffic following the opening of the Ulverston and Lancaster

The Normans followed, but the base of their tower is all that remains.

Every year on the Saturday nearest Johnson's birthday, there is an official gathering around his statue, followed by a supper in the Guildhall.

How many of these men came back by the end of the following year? Frensham is known for its ponds and its common - now Frensham Country Park.

The mill was rebuilt following a fire in 1872.

Many of these lanes are very ancient, lying on routes followed by packhorse trains and travellers over many hundreds of years, and now enjoyed by ramblers.

In 1549, John Kett led his rebel peasant army from its camp on Mousehold Heath over this fine 14th-century bridge, only for his followers to be cut to pieces in the city.

Following the end of the Second World War, a large number of returning servicemen and women opted for a university education, and by 1947 Sheffield university's student population had more than doubled

A single-decker is closely followed by a double-decker.

The hotel's grounds covered 70 acres, so that with the decline in interest in medicinal treatments following the Second World War they became a prime site for development.