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At the opening of the first motorway bridge thirty years earlier, Enoch Williams was reported to have said to an interviewer that traffic would increase to such an extent that another bridge would

Both are long gone, although smaller firms and businesses occupy those same sites today.

The Jew’s House is another of Lincoln’s surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

On the Buckinghamshire bank (since 1974 in Berkshire) Henry VI's great foundation, Eton College, has rendered this another 'company town'.

Another absentee rector put in a total of just six months' work during an incumbency lasting eight years; he claimed he was suffering from work-related stress.

More had to give both Melplash and his favourite daughter to Lord Paulet, who interceded with the king on his behalf in search of a pardon.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell. Another famous son of the town was J Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

The earliest parts of the castle are the hall and a small tower, both dating from the 12th century.

Yet it was intermittent, and well into the 19th century there were fields on both sides of the road, while the postal address was 'near Worcester'.

The two buildings dominating this view of the east side of Foregate Street have both been converted to other purposes.

Another view of Greyfriars, this time showing the impressive front elevation. The friary from which it took its name was founded by the Franciscan order in 1235.

Over the years the foliage and the soil on both sides has been cut back to keep the problem of earth slippage under control.

The boats are towed to the end of the cruise and then both horse and rudder are moved to the opposite end for the return trip, thus solving the problem caused by the lack of turning space.

The fitst Tate Gallery containing British art opened in Jubiliee Year 1897 on the site of a prison known as the Millbank Penitentiary.

Both Bute East and West docks neared closure. West finally succumbed in 1964 with East surviving a further six years.

Nearby another monument remembers two teachers and 38 children, killed in 1944 when an American Liberator from Wharton crashed on the school.

This was formerly the seat of the Hutton family, who produced two archbishops, both called Matthew, of York in 1595 and Canterbury in 1757.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

As we look east from Queen Square, the terrace we see on the right, Northumberland Buildings, built in 1778, is another design by the ubiquitous Thomas Baldwin.

The lifeboat house was deemed necessary by the local authorities in view of the dangerous channels and sandbanks already noted.

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year.

This connection with both her and John Masefield is remembered at the annual poetry festival.

Horndon has historical footnotes to make it both proud and ashamed. Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London.

A lone elderly oarsman reflects on life on the still waters of the little bay below Wray Castle and its impressive ornate boathouse.