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An enlightened man by the standards of most mine-owners of the time, he gave his name to the Johnson Shaft, which was set at 25 degrees to ease the hauling of ore and to make life easier for miners leaving

On summer Sundays there was more work to be done by the boat, with 'Holiday Tours' to Liverpool or Dublin calling at Douglas.

How many were to return alive by the end of the following year? Frensham is known for its ponds and its common – now Frensham Country Park.

HMS 'Conway' was a training ship run by the Mercantile Marine Services to train officer cadets. She was moved to the shelter of the Menai Strait in 1941 to avoid air raids.

The castle was besieged by the French in 1216, but it held out. The threat of invasion from France and Spain meant that the castle was kept in a good state of repair.

The mill ceased work 1913, and is now restored to complete, but non-working condition; it is open to visitors and owned by the National Trust.

These provided cliff top walks and secluded valleys, easily accessed later in the century by the Cliff Railway.

The original Saxon fortification was succeeded by the extensive Norman castle seen today.

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

Two small boys can be seen riding along on the pavement by the George Hotel. The pub is still there today, and so is what is known as the Desborough Cross to the right of it.

The Tower was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee: this view was taken on 11 August 1899, and shows its formal opening by the Countess of Scarbrough.

By the 1920s the bathing machines had gone.

After belonging to various owners it was purchased by the YMCA, and has become an international training centre with many and varied courses available for young people of all ages and nationalities.

This main road through the town used to be the Wakefield to Halifax road, originally built by the Romans. Business in the town was not only concentrated on blanket making.

Today it is still one of the best areas in which to live locally, with extremely expensive and beautiful houses owned by the wealthier elements of Manchester's work force - including, until recently, David

Renowned as one of the finest parks in the north of England, Queens Park was given to the town by the London and North Western Railway Company to commemorate fifty years of the railway in the town.

In 1922 it was taken over by the Great Western Railway whose acquisition of every South Wales port instantly made them the world's largest dock owner.

The street familiar today is clearly much in place by the mid 1950s. Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view.

Not only has the motor car started to feature in the town, but the 'new' industries are represented by the Kingston Mill site (right), which was built for George Spencer Moulton in the 1920s

In the foreground is Barton Farm, a dairy farm worked by the Chard family. The hay ricks and the milking sheds (skillins) remind us of another time.

The lady by the gate would have no inkling of the military influx soon to come.

The large building to the left behind the Castle Tavern is the Methodist chapel in Ryder's Wynd, replacing an earlier chapel nearby, and superseded by the present Methodist church in Queens

As the county and assize town of Kent, as well as its chief agricultural centre, Maidstone is also a busy market and shopping centre, and many of its older buildings are overshadowed by the commercial

By the end of the Napoleonic Wars a number of other springs had been discovered and developed.