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Its civic duties came to an end in 1985 when the building was taken over by the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society.

A statue of St Edmund, by Dame Elizabeth Frink, was placed here in 1976 to commemorate the end of Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk as independent administrative areas.

Spence said that his design came to him when he was under the influence of anaesthetic for toothache: he saw zigzagging walls and an altar ablaze with light.

In 1948, St John's Hospital for the aged and infirm came on site. A girls' hostel was added in 1972, and sheltered housing for the elderly was built in 1982.

The crowds came in greater numbers after the Snowdon Mountain Railway opened in 1896, which provided easy access to the summit for hundreds of holidaymakers.

A fine Georgian building, the hotel came complete with a Long Room where Leyburn Market Club, founded in 1832, still holds its dinners.

A fine Georgian building, the hotel came complete with a Long Room where Leyburn Market Club, founded in 1832, still holds its dinners.

This impractical arrangement came to an end, and the parishes then became responsible for the upkeep of roads within their boundaries.

Held in the Square in the 19th century, six hundred stallholders came from all over the country, and great crowds from the Fylde turned up.

The wood came from Scandinavia, Russia and Canada, and was used in the city's furniture and match-making industries.

Chalybeate Street on the right led to the chalybeate well, which was used by visitors who came to drink its waters.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

After losing his wife, he came to Paignton and bought the tower, one of many built in the early 1800s to repel possible French attack.

Golders Green was farmland until the turn of the century; prosperity came in 1905 with the arrival of the Northern line. It is famous for its crematorium, partly designed by Sir Ernest George.

Their ships came onto the route in 1894, leaving Belfast at the 'Bangor Jetty' near Queens Bridge. The next year the railway built the long new pier seen here.

To the right is part of Little Germany, a warehouse complex built by German traders who came to the city as cloth merchants in the 1820s and after the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

Construction began in 1853 and was finished in 1855, although the viaduct only came into service a year and half later.

This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.

The brewery chimney came down in 1959, and the remaining building became the site of the bus station. On the outskirts of the town was the Naval Training Ship HMS 'Cabot'.

A bus service came in 1922, and at the end of the road on the right, the Hippodrome Cinema entertained the town from 1929 until June 1962.

Fortunately Richard Ansdell RA, the world-renowned Victorian painter, chose to build a house, Starr Hills, amongst the sandhills; although his hope was for solitude, he brought fame and expansion to the

Three years after William Cobbett rode through this stretch of countryside in August 1823, the Dale family came to Aldhurst Farm.

Southport local authority came to the rescue in 1932, when financial difficulties were about to force a sale to a housing development company.