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Shops like this might see no more than a dozen customers a day, and were often run by widows, struggling to pay the rent to the landlord as well as suppliers' bills.

There are superb views across Lyme Bay from the clifftops, and Portland Bill can be seen on a clear day.

By the early 1900s it was billed as 'Sussex's answer to Scotland'!

By the late 1960s the RDSC had replaced their paddlers with three motor ferries: the 'Conway Castle', the 'Seymour Castle', and the 'Cardiff Castle', the latter skippered by Bill Rehberg,

He ruined himself by spending public funds on the house - hardly surprising, since the bill came to £190,000. It cost £500 alone to obtain the preliminary designs from Italy.

One of the larger villages of Sussex, Billingshurst may get its name from the Saxon 'Billings', or perhaps from the Roman engineer Belinus who was responsible for Stane Street, the Roman road linking

When this photograph was taken Bill Scott Gordon's 'Revels of 1951' was the hit show at the pier theatre.

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

The Gardens have two more claims to fame: they became the home of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and much earlier, in September 1891, they had staged Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

On the left outside Hodley's is a poster announcing the postponement of the Ruabon date for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

In late Victorian times there were nine hundred employees with salaries ranging from £50 to £1,200.The total salary bill was £210,000 - the sum a single top manager might earn today!

The Arena, built below the sea-front promenade, was billed as the 'premier open-air theatre of the north'.

There are a number of old posters sticking to the walls - these days there is a discreet sign which tells us that 'Bill Posting is now Prohibited'.

In that year the cutlers of Sheffield presented a successful bill to Parliament.

Here lived some of the workers in the salt mines, including Joe Danson, Jack Fairhurst, and Bill Davis.

The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter.

His farmhand Bill Holderson tends the horse with its milk cart.

She and her mother bought ribbons, gloves and socks here, and the assistant put the money and bill into a brass cylinder which was attached to a wire overhead pulley.

Great Bardfield is a village that bills itself as a town. Its 17th-century Town House, on the left, was once a sort of part-time guildhall.

When it was in need of repair controversy arose over who should foot the bill—in 1885 Garstang Highways Board refused to do so. The last flood damage was in 1980.

More than 40 years later, many visitors continue to pour in to stay at a resident caravan park offering karaoke and clubland singers on the entertainment bill.

According to the guide- book of your choice, Bourton is billed 'Queen of the Cotswolds','the Venice of the Cotswolds', or 'the jewel in the Cotswolds' crown'.

Prince's International Circus is billed to appear at the Pavilion.

The Union Canal Bill was approved by Parliament in 1793, and work began in 1794, reaching Fleckney in 1796.