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This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

On the left is the Swan Inn, on the right is Graball Row. as to make it easier to carry away stone from the castle.

Locally named the Pepperpot, it was erected in 1850 on Hoad Hill to commemorate Ulverston-born Sir John Barrow, a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Eight metres wide and elevated in towns - their 'High' Streets - it was the route that Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) took in AD 60 to her final battle with the Roman Governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus

James Derham owned Corless Mill in Nether Wyresdale, 6 miles from Lancaster, and in 1801 he manufactured gas to light the mill and his workers' cottages.

Oak Hill Park was Accrington's second park, and the land was purchased bu the Corporation from Reginald Hargreaves for £12,000 in 1892.

His brother Michael joined in 1953, going to work on Whipperley Ring school at Farley Hill. Like their father, they had trained at Regent Street Polytechnic.

On the left is the North Hunts Constitutional Club, now the offices of Ewing Reeson, photographer.

Today, all that remains of the Plume of Feathers is the stableyard, now used as garages, which can be seen from Tythings Court.

The impressive facade of the Hotel Metropole, with the Ship Hotel next door, faced the end of the Jetty to greet the thousands of holidaymakers who travelled down on the paddle steamers.

Market Bosworth was granted the privilege of a Wednesday market in 1285, and the small town was one of 29 in the country to combine this with an annual fair.

Prehistoric Cams Most people enjoying a round of golf on the Cams Hall Estate today are probably unaware of the existence of the 429 pieces of worked flint that were recovered during topsoil stripping

Although much of the church is original 16th-century - the north chapel was built in 1570 - extensions and restorations were carried out in 1851 at a cost of £7,000.

On the top of Ashcombe Hill (now Ranmore Hill) there was a farm; here, perhaps, John Denby lived, a one-time farmer who was referred to at a Court Baron held in 1555.

Prestbury was the mother church of Macclesfield.

This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.

All the local farming families tried to get back to Alderley for Wakes week in the third week of August.

The cemetery reportedly has a gravestone dedicated to a lady described as 'a weak and sinful worm, the vilest of her race'!

In 1956 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone opened a Methodist church in Langdon Hills, and in the following year the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited Kingswood Junior School, officially opened

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

Up to 20 stables ran their horses on the gallops at Six Mile Hill.

Also here is Richard Burberry, a member of the famous Burberry raincoat family.

By the mid 1950s much had changed, and the front of the Angel and Royal Hotel indicates the reason (see G43032 and G43099).