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Sir Nicholas brought skilled weavers to his house at Stonyhurst to teach villagers textile weaving when times were hard, and he then supplied cottages with hand looms.

The house, a two-up, two-down and attic, is now a museum which spreads into the shop next door, on the corner of the evocatively named Scargill Street.

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for housing

The abbey was founded in 1136; it was converted into a house and further enlarged in the 17th century by the Savile family.

This last name was a legacy of Charles Dickens, who made the 18th-century weatherboarded house over the gate the home of church organist John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

The houses beyond stood in the Dartford Road. The ground was given to the town in perpetuity in the late 18th century by the 3rd Duke of Dorset.

In the days of horse-drawn travel, Tewkesbury was an important coaching town.

The building beside the bridge, now called Bridge Crafts, houses a post office, craft centre and tea shop.

We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

She still managed to upset strait-laced locals by her antics at her house, Barrells Park, which lies in ruins after a fire in 1933 and is said to be haunted by her ghost.

During the mid 19th century, new suburban houses were built along the road leading to Ware. As well as dwellings, one or two factories provided work for local people.

Many of the houses along the High Road at Turnford were built to accommodate the workers on the nearby market gardens. On the centre left, in the far distance, is a garage.

The shop under the blind (left) is no longer a shop, but the white house (centre) is still there. We may be glad that the ugly power line post has also gone.

The adjoining house is now fully incorporated with it and unrecognisable.

The houses to the right have also been replaced by those of a more modern design. There are two Woolsthorpes in Lincolnshire, and they are not far apart.

As the Bolckows died out, Councillor Thomas Dormand Stewart paid £25,000 for the house and grounds in 1923 and presented them to the town. Marton Hall was demolished in 1960.

It was replaced by a housing estate, Belmont Heights, with access across the railway line from the Brighton Road, north of Belmont Station.

The road is much changed with blocks of flats along the left side and semi- detached houses on the right.

A tragedy for Chesham was the demolition in 1965 of the Market House or Town Hall in the alleged interests of those great behemoths, the motor car and lorry.

The brick and tile building on the right is known as the Pest House.

Earlier, this had been the Half Moon and Punchbowl brew house and shop. The single-storey building at the rear is the former gatehouse of the Odiham and Farnham Turnpike Trust.

On the south side, whilst a touring charabanc waits for its customers outside the Royal Oak public house, a handcart makes a delivery to Fraser`s, piano sellers and household outfitters.

The church was restored in the 1680s after being used to house prisoners during the Civil War; it was declared ruinous in 1657.