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The brewery buildings were taken over by the firm of Jordan and Addington, but they were no longer used for brewing.

It was one of fifty or so which he commissioned; most of them were erected in Paris, where he lived, to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Prussians in 1871.

The Townley family owned the hall for over 500 years; it was given to the people of Burnley by the last occupant, Lady O'Hagan, the widow of Lord O'Hagan, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

The Harris Orphanage opened in 1888 after £100,000 was set aside by the Trustees of the Harris Estate to build and equip such an establishment.

Between 1860 and 1896 the route was operated by the fast four-funnelled paddle-steamers 'Ulster', 'Munster', 'Leinster' and 'Connaught', which were contracted under penalty clauses to make the crossing

When questioned by the police, the boys tried to pretend that the couple had committed suicide, but foul play was suspected; finally Richard confessed to shooting them 'in a blind rage' and was hanged

By the mid 1890s, the Port St Mary fleet had shrunk to just 56 boats employing 346 men and boys; it too was landing a catch worth less than £3000 a year.

By the early 1890s, the Fiume Whitehead 18-inch torpedo had a range varying from 440 yds to about 900 yds.

His apparent bravado as the Armada was sighted in the English Channel – 'We have time to finish the game, and beat the Spaniards afterwards' – was dictated by the mundane fact that the tide was against

There was a pleasant walk by the stream but it was liable to flooding and so was enclosed in a culvert in the 1870s, only to continue to flood the new streets above.

(Author's Collection) The fanfare is sounded, and the charter granting the fair is read from the balcony of the town hall by the mayor of the borough.

JOURNEY eastwards from the sedate and literary little town of Lyme Regis towards the sandy beaches and urban sprawl of Bournemouth, you become aware that this beautiful Dorset coast has been created by the

The accuracy of the time shown on the ten-foot dials was kept under observation by the firm with the aid of an electric signal box from Greenwich, using the under-sea Telegraphic Cabling System.

A walk round Prestbury churchyard (especially recommended in crocus time) will leave an outstanding impression of the antiquity of the place, as evidenced by the carved Saxon cross and the little

By the 1830s the mill briefly became a corn mill (grist mill), returning to broadcloth production when the Salter family had the mill.

The 104 acres of the lake are only 3 miles from Rochdale cen- tre and were a popular rendezvous by the mid 1860s.

This was overcome by the building of an unsatisfactory wooden jetty in 1824, which in turn was replaced between 1853 and 1857 by Birch's iron jetty.

The sculpture of Christ by the late Adrian Huxley was controversial at the time, but has become an accepted part of Basildon art.

Fulwell Park, home to the exiled King Manoel II of Portugal in the early 20th century, was developed by the firm Wates, and roads in the Fulwell Park estate area reflect the Portuguese connections

All three buildings were designed by the same man, and were built within a couple of years of each other; all three buildings are still standing.

On 5 September 1890, 'Lynx' was rammed by the tanker 'Oevelgonne', which did not stop - she was subsequently arrested on a visit to Falmouth.

For almost half a century ordinary members of the public paid a penny to gain admission, but in 1891, when the burgh of Hillhead was annexed by the city, the Botanic Gardens were transferred to

of both harbours would have provided just such resources for early man in the Portsmouth area and while there is not a lot of evidence of settlement, flints have been identified, washed out by the

interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside, and of course, before the Leander Clubhouse by the