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He began to exploit this natural resource on his land, in the process becoming one of the biggest producers of coal in South Yorkshire.

Initially there had been an attempt to build the Lady Chapel at the eastern end, but the foundations were insecure and the walls began to crack.

Work began in July of that year to prepare the estate for its opening as a park. The official opening took place on Whit Monday, 22 May 1893.

In 1932, Gordon Richards began riding for Fred Darling, the lead- ing trainer of his day.

Inspector Pawley called together all his men - three sergeants and seven constables - and they began to defend the station.

After the Bewleys faded out of the picture, the Anchor Street Ironworks were taken over by T H P Dennis, and production began to focus on steam- and water-valves.

As the town began to recover from the effects of the war, the Urban District Council turned its attention to providing the new housing that the town needed.

built at Longsowerby and Bousteads Grassing to the ENGLISH STREET IN THE 1920s TL00038 (Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery) Many of the properties shown on the left-hand-side of this photograph began

A few years after this photograph was taken, the church came under the care of a man who began to furnish the interior with nautical emblems.

Then it passed into the hands of William ap Thomas, a member of the minor Welsh gentry, who began to build the castle as we see it today.

When the Chilean ironclad 'Blanco Encalada' was attacked and sunk by two small boats armed with primitive torpedoes, the world's navies began at last to take the torpedo seriously.

Middle Row, which had hitherto backed onto the conduit-stream, now began occupying pockets of land on the west side of the stream, too.

Although so many of the old St Neots family businesses have disappeared, one that began in the early years of the 20th century still flourishes.

After the baths closed in 1981, officially for refurbishment, the council decided that the demand for a new pool could not justify the cost of extensive repair or replacement, and a search began

Famous local boys the Dave Clark Five were the resident group at Mecca's Locarno, and Basildon's own Alison Moyet began hitting the headlines with her chart-topping records in the 1980s.

No sooner had Thomas Mildmay obtained the manor of Chelmsford than the townspeople began to clamour for a new Market Cross: the old one was falling down around the judges' ears.

The east window is the work of Butterfield, who restored the church in 1853, ten years before he began work on Aldbourne.

figure on the calendar, although the local Staffordshire Newsletter and Stafford Post each brought out special editions, and there was correspondence debating whether the millennium actually began

Exmouth began as a suburb of the nearby villages of Littleham and Withycombe Raleigh, though both have now become suburbs of the newer town.

The old two-storey workshops that could be found everywhere began to be replaced by bigger buildings, often of two or three storeys, with the ground floor brick, and the upper weatherboarded.

Thus began the Carrington association with the town and the transformation of the manor house.

He began a policy of buying up land until all the properties in Horton had fallen into his hands within a few years.

It was not a good size for the church of a county town, and a complete rebuilding began in the first half of the 15th century.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that this new chapter in the city's history began in 1092: 'King William went north to Caerleul with a large army and restored the town and built the castle.