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The sections from Leeds to Gargrave and from Wigan to Liverpool followed by 1777. Then the funding ran out. For years progress was slow, but the missing stages were finally completed in 1816.

Its expansion followed rapidly on its new site, occupying the buildings seen in this view designed by Edwin Dolby in High Victorian style and opened in 1870.

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.

Seaton developed as a resort in the 1850s, and in the years that followed a number of hotels were built to cater for the town's popularity with visitors.

Other honours were to follow.

Little Chalfont, a name given the area by developers in the 1920s, grew up around Chalfont Road Station on the Metropolitan Line which opened in 1889, with a branch to Chesham opening the following year

Following the First World War, many changes took place once again around Britain, and in Barrow and Furness in particular.

The following year the boundary was extended to bring all the land acquired into the borough.

This photograph shows the later building, built in 1937, which itself became redundant following the amalgamation of the Grammar School and the Secondary Modern School in the 1980s.

A few roads had been added during the following three hundred years, but the main High Street is still very long and busy.

Inserting the tower on four piers inside the existing building was a great feat of engineering skill, and following the 1539 Suppression, dismantling the tower proved too difficult.

This view shows Caerphilly following the restoration both of its fabric and its water defences by the Marquis of Bute.

When the roads on the Portmore estate were adopted by Weybridge UDC in the 1890s, following extensive house building, Mr Ward presented the pillars to the council on condition that they were preserved

The Colonial & American Meat Stores (right) are next to the emporium owned by Charles Cox, which is followed by Watson's, selling toys and fancy goods.

The fact that the churchyard is circular suggests that it follows the line of some earlier Roman structure.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of new streets were built following the grid pattern of the mediaeval town.

The following year he was betrayed to the English, captured, and taken to Shrewsbury, where he was hung, drawn and quartered.

In fact, its west end, seen in the photograph, gives the false impression that the grand nave arch has been blocked following the demolition of more elaborate fabric.

The compact grey stone 14th-century church was rebuilt following a fire in the mid 15th century at the behest of its then rector James Goldwell, who later became the Bishop of Norwich.

The castle was owned by the mighty Neville family until the 16th century, when in 1569 it was confiscated by the Crown following their involvement in the Rising of the North and a plot to overthrow

In 1924, Richmond House, a large house with extensive grounds on the river-front by the Embankment, came into council ownership, following an unsuccessful bid at auction, a fumbled attempt at compulsory

It later came into the possession of the Vane family, though it was temporarily lost by them to the Royalists during the English Civil War following a surprise attack.

There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.

This became the main park for Minehead in 1924 following private donations towards a scheme for the conversion of 6 acres of meadows.