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On the way to Staverton, in a lay-by is one of Telford's toll houses. When this photograph was taken there was a filling station opposite the New Inn. Today it is a car showroom.

The station concourse now houses a small shopping centre, and the entrance has been relocated to halfway between the sign shown in the picture and Lime Street.

They wanted to house the vast collection of works of art they had amassed from all corners of Europe so that people from all walks of life could see and enjoy them, but unfortunately they died

The chancel was rebuilt by the Stanleys in the 1850s to house the tomb of the 1st Lord Stanley, but it may have replaced an even older 13th- century structure.

Egremont's James Askew put in more cash, but this could not stop the building of ordinary houses to rent or sell off and bring in much-needed revenue.

The house seen here was built in c1840 by the Shaw family, who first owned the estate. In July 1929 the 423 acre park was turned over to the Boy Scouts for the world's first Scout Jamboree.

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

In the distant centre can be seen a house named Fairholme, the home of William Panter, superintendent of the carriage works and a leading man in the early development of the new town.

Beverley's beers were certainly best at the Horse and Jockey (left) back in 1959. Now the village's oldest pub is almost the only remaining building in this picture.

Its style owes something to the Wentworth Estate to the south-west, where there are many houses in a similar style, but mostly better than this.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

Two extra stories were added to the chapel in 1836 and it became a private house, but in 1930 the structure was found to be unstable, and the chapel was returned to its original design.

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin (centre) with its lofty belfry tower stands beside Granary Cottage and Long House (left) that were attached to Manor Farm.

The house on the left is later in date than its neighbour, with its distinctive Sussex-style half- tiled elevations and attic rooms.

The Trossachs, overtopped by Ben Ledi and other high mountains, enclose the lake at the head: and those houses which we had seen before, with their cornfields sloping towards the water, stood very prettily

The 18th-century Tivoli Tavern (the white building, centre left), formerly the Globe, is still there, but the buildings on the left are no more, having being replaced by Devonshire House.

The other houses date from the late 19th century. They now face modern bungalows. Vann Road is to the west of the crossroads.

The shops on the near left, housing Browns, Percy's the confectioners and Rennie's opticians, are in a new building, but three doors along the bay- fronted upper storeys visible in the earlier photograph

In 1241 Henry used the castle to house Welsh prisoners, and in 1303 it was upgraded as part of a series of second-line defences against Welsh attacks.

The town is situated on one of Norfolk's rare hills, and some early houses had wells dug 105ft deep to obtain water.

The Manor House, far right, dates from 1743; the original owner was Elenor Ellis.

The trees have gone, and the field to the right is now occupied by 1970s houses, Southerden Close.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

Sailing was one of the favourite pastimes of the wealthy late 19th-century 'off-comers' who built houses close to the shore of the lake.