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Coaching sharply declined after 1845 when the railway reached the edge of the town. An army vehicle is in the forecourt of today's Hogshead pub, then Charles Heath's residence.

circuses and the Boxing Day meet of the local

LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.

St Michael's Church, Pitsea Built in a prominent position on the top of a small hill, St Michael's Church overlooks the peninsula formed by creeks running into the river and the parish of Pitsea, formerly

Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street. On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.

Full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

His model village provided all the essential living amenities, and for recreation he provided a spacious park on the opposite side of the river and canal.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

It was here at this fen-edge settlement that William the Conqueror and Geoffrey de Manderville made their defensive stand for the island of Ely.

In the ten years or so prior to the Great War, golf went through a boom with a large number of courses opening throughout the UK.

Just six miles from the Borde, the village of Ford sits on gently rising ground on the right bank of the Till.

Consisting of little more than one long street running east to west, Glanton enjoyed a reputation for the healing properties of the water from the Keppin or Keppie Well situated behind the old school

Look at the car to the far right of the line: it is remarkable how old-fashioned some cars still being driven in the 1960s now look.

A view of Sherborne School Courts showing the former Abbot's house and kitchen. The monastic kitchen dates from the end of the 15th century and its chimney is seen here.

Here we see a section of the canal at Greenberfield Locks, just before it enters the town. This is the highest point that the canal reaches.

The land was previously part of the Greenhead Hall estate. The new park boasted two lakes, one of which is now a rose garden.

We are north of the junction with West End.

This is downstream beyond the 1813 Ouse bridge to the Embankment area, with a view of the parks and gardens mostly laid out during Joshua Hawkins's mayoralty in the 1880s.

The church, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire.

On the left we can see Baker's clock, near to their shop; they were well-known clock and watch makers.

Here we see a Wallasey tram on the crowded single track part of the street.

Richard Turner, one of the temperance leaders, was born in Bilsborrow. Speaking at Preston Cockpit, he inadvertently invented the word 'teetotal'—Dicky stammered!

The Council Offices are on the right, bearing a datestone of 1913. Before that date, meetings of the Garstang Rural District Council were held at the King's Arms Hotel.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.