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Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.

Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).

Facit, to the north of Whitworth, was elected for a church under the Rochdale Vicarage Act, 1866.St John`s was consecrated on 1 December 1871.

history: the villagers were united by the infamous Penrhyn Lockout, when the quarry owner, Lord Penrhyn, locked his workers out, bringing them ultimately to heel by great hardship and starvation, an act

When the mill was demolished the pond was filled in and grassed over for use as the village green - a generous act by two local benefactors.

In the days when the village had two MPs (before the Reform Act of 1832), election day was something to behold.

The young Scottish queen was married to Francois, Dauphin of France, an act that was to establish the Auld Alliance.

An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal

The grand scale and decorated gables of the Institute are a visible reminder of a wealthier town; here the iron-works acted as a magnet which drew workers in high numbers.

Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of broad, airy streets was laid out.

The Vagrancy Act of 1824 made it illegal for them to be out in the open air without visible means of subsistence.

These baths are around the corner from where Throwley Road once turned to the north (it is now Throwley Way and acts as an inner relief road or High Street by-pass).

The Mumbles railway began as a tramroad authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1804; it carried limestone and coal until one of the original shareholders, Benjamin French, used a horse-drawn wagon to carry

The medieval river bridge was replaced by the Improvement Commissioners set up by Act of Parliament in 1803.

At Christmas 1175 the Norman lord, William de Braose, invited Seisal ap Dyfnwal and other Welsh nobles to a banquet.

A new dock was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1881 and was opened in 1882, partly paid for by the Great Northern Railway, who extended a branch line to it.

The arrival of the railway in 1867, and the 1872 National Bank Holiday Act, opened Walton up to everybody.

iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated a New Town in 1950 under the New Towns Act

The act would include songs, jokes, mime and monologues.

In 1898, when Parliament passed an Act for Manchester to have its own University, it was Owen's College which became the core of that University.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone

The act would feature songs, jokes, mime and monologues.

The old sanitorium was not big enough and one of the first acts of the new head, J F Wolfenden, was to build a new and large sanatorium on Stockerston Road.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.