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

Boots the Chemists were still next door to the hotel, but not for long: they were soon to move further along the High Street as Grantham's shopping centre gravitated towards St Peter's Hill, following

The victims of the Kynochs tragedy in 1913 (three employees of the explosives factory were killed in an accident) are buried in this now disused churchyard.

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

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

At the top of Shooters Hill there is a sign-post. To the left of the sign-post between the buildings can be seen a lovely view of the harbour and the boats of the Yacht Haven.

Another fine artist buried here is William (Bill) Brunel, a photographer who was noted for his fine pictures of motor car racing.

Meanwhile down in the town, away from the lush gardens and villas of Amersham Hill, the furniture industry was modernising into the factory system.

Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

Seven were killed in there, along with another 37 elsewhere at the plant. I'd spoken to Dennis Orchard ten minutes before he died. They were working on the early jet engines in V block.

old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north, in Walkley and Crookes to the west, in Sharrow and Heeley to the south and Park Hill

Bruce organised dances in the Congregational Chapel Sunday School, now the Community Rooms, and Polish soldiers from Edge Hill Hospital were invited to join in the events.

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.

History is like digging in ancient sand hills—the more you dig, the more you find.

Its social centres were the old Bull public house, situated on Bull Road (now Clay Hill Road), Holy Cross Church, and Fairview Hall in Timberlog Lane.

Frith shows shops in Frenchgate, Castle Hill and New Road.

King Street was widened in 1928 when the old Town Hall was demolished.

(Marion Hill) The Fish Lizard's remains were discovered when the lake was constructed in 1982.

(Marion Hill) Woughton is one of the area's eighteen villages existing in the 11th century which were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086; thirteen of the villages became local centres for the new

A Roman Catholic church was built in Castle Street in 1900, but it was replaced by the present St Augustine's on Amersham Hill in 1955.

It lies in the valleys of the Rivers Gade and Bulbourne, on the ridges of the Chiltern Hills only 25 miles from London.

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.