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Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

A royd is a northern name for an assart, a practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.They would sow

Next to the Trustee Savings Bank is an alley, down which I used to go to school.

The word 'fold' means an enclosure of land for animals, and 'Chadynge`s fold' may well date back to the Saxon period.

Part of the nave and the chancel at St Mary's has walls dating back to Saxon times, and the walls incorporate many Roman bricks.

It dates back some 3,500 years to the Bronze Age, and was a ritual stone circle and burial chamber.

Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor.

If required to wait and then bring the clients back to Altrincham, it would be charged out by the hour.

Next door at number 26 is a sub-branch of the Union Bank of Manchester, whilst further along is Ward's greengrocers and Rogers' chemist and druggist store.

Jacob Winter moved his shop to Little Under Bank in about 1880.

Back in 1851 Sheffield was one of the towns at the centre of a price-cutting war between the Midland and the Great Northern railway companies for the lucrative passenger traffic associated with the Great

The view towards the Royal Hotel and Lloyds Bank is almost unchanged.

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

The sudden inward rush of water up the Severn is at its best when backed by a south-westerly wind; then the bore is like the one pictured here.

Today it houses the Yorkshire Bank and Provident Personal Credit.

Further back, on the left is the butcher`s shop of G M Gilbert, and then the White Hart public house.

Further back, on the left is the butcher`s shop of G M Gilbert, and then the White Hart public house.

The view was taken from the tower in the time of Rev Eldon Surtees Bankes, the rector since 1854.

'Ferry No.1', dating back to the inauguration of the service in 1926, was supplemented by postwar 'Ferry No.2' in the 1920s.

Standing further back from the College, we can see part of the grounds in front of the building.

At weekends the banks are lively with visitors, strollers and walkers, rowing club members, and people visiting the café.

The banks of the nearby river were strengthened, so that today it is safe to drink in the Feathers without wearing waders.

A motte and bailey was built here in the early 1070s by Robert de Rhuddlan, but the ruins we see today date back to the fortress of Edward I.

The tall buildings behind the lamp post, one with a sign for the Club and Literary Institute and built as a temperance hotel the other a bank dated 1898, flanked the entrance to Station Road.