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An 18th- century female descendant of the last earl married Sir Hugh Smithson, who changed his name to Percy and was created Earl of Northumberland in 1750 and first Duke of Northumberland in 1766

The Duke of Wellington pub next door was built in 1933. Messrs Parke & White of 45 Broadgate (extreme left) closed in 1958, and the site is now the new and expanded Lincoln City Library.

The monument is by King. William Salmon, 1826, is remembered by a Grecian youth standing by a column, by Baily.

Alan was the son of the Count of Penthievre, and related to the Duke of Brittany, a relationship that often saw the castle declared forfeit to the Crown.

The First World War held up the work, and it was finally officially opened by King George V on 8 October 1921, nearly thirty years after the plans were first put forward.

When the Duke of Bridgewater planned his canal into Manchester in 1760, the original plan was to stay on the Salford side of the Irwell.

Sandwiched between this and the 18th-century Duke's Head Inn, is the shop of Teed & Son, builders' merchants: among other things, they dealt with 'wireless instruments', advised on electric light (no charge

The centre of the bridge marks the boundary of the West Riding and the Ainstey of York - a grant of land by King John to the city that contained some twenty villages.

It began to spread westwards along Brochole Street (now Duke Street). The High Street itself was filling up.

It began to spread westwards along Brochole Street (now Duke Street). The High Street itself was filling up.

Under the building are fragments of the Hospital of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary which was founded in 1330, but in 1355 Henry, Duke of Lancaster, refounded it as a secular college.

John Duke held the Bell and the business, but after his death in 1851, it was sold to Thomas Ibbett. The business continued through the 1800s and into the 1900s in the same family.

The date on this photograph is the year in which the Duke of Bedford opened Woburn Abbey to visitors in the truly commercial sense.

The building just behind the animated young boy was the Conservative Club, built on the site of the Devonshire Arms, named after the Duke who owned the town until the great sale of 1824.

The opening ceremony was performed by the Duke of Devonshire.

It was designed by E W Mountford and built between 1891 and 1896, and was opened the following year by Queen Victoria who was greeted by Sheffield's first lord mayor, the Duke of Norfolk.

It relocated to Fair Field, between upper Duke Street and the Burgess Well. But Fair Field was sold to developers in 1877, and six years later Chelmsford's fairs were abolished altogether.

George VI, then Duke of York, honeymooned here with Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, later the Queen Mother.

Several of the pictures were taken in 1929, a year which saw the commemoration of the sixth centenary of the Richmond charter granted in 1329 by King Edward III, but none of this pageantry is