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The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

The barn itself is no longer agricultural, and has been added to the restaurant: nowadays it offers 'The Family Welcome', and there is a huge car park to the right of this view.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The cross dates from the 15th century (it was restored in 2003), while Mr Waller, head gardener at Ackworth Park, built the shelter in the late 1930s.

After a succession of owners and tenants, the estate was sold to Featherstone Council in 1930 for £3,600, after which it was used as the Town Hall and a public park.

There are excellent parking facilities for vehicles in this part of the High Street.

Ancillary businesses included a newsagent, a butcher, a baker and the post office (where the white van is parked), as well as the builder R O Ayres, who proudly advertises his telephone number on his

This view is in the grounds, now a public park, of Ousebank House, a fine late 17th-century brick house with giant pilasters. It is now occupied by the British Legion.

The 450-acre Finningley Park Estate was sold in 1935, and within a year a new RAF airstrip was built on its flat land.

The arrival of modern motor-traffic over subsequent decades means this generous space is now more often used as a crowded car park, and on the Spring Bank Holiday as the setting for an annual

His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column. St Paul's was enlarged in 1870 and 1880, and the tower was rebuilt in 1904.

His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column. St Paul's was enlarged in 1870 and 1880, and the tower was rebuilt in 1904.

Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

The parkland was first enclosed as a deer park in 1604, and has subsequently provided peace and tranquillity for National Trust visitors since 1953.

Towards the southern end of London Road, the 'tip-up' cart is parked waiting for its horse to be harnessed, whilst a milk cart (left) winds slowly up the hill towards the Congregational church close to

They are not there now - housing or car parks have taken their place. The road is still the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road. Remember Green Shield Stamps? The garage on the right offered them!

But because of the enormous growth in London traffic during the Victorian era, it was dismantled in 1878, and acquired by Sir Henry Meux as the entrance to the family estate at Theobald's Park.

Along with the substantial numbers of parked cars along the verges, a laden lorry and a coach are advancing down the High Street, representative of the immense numbers of similar heavy vehicles which

The revised fair was centred upon Victoria Park. Any livestock connection was purely coincidental, as the procession of floats gathered (or should that be 'mustered'?)

The lines of parked vehicles on both sides of the road tend to detract from the architectural riches of the fine Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings that adorn this spacious street; they are evidence

The spoil was used to extend neighbouring Luton Airport by 12 acres and to reclaim 32 acres of Luton Hoo Park.

on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used as a car park

Sculpted in Portland stone to the designs of Carlo Magnoni, it commemorates the Waggoners' Reserve Corps of 1,127 local farm workers who joined Sir Mark Sykes' private army as wagon drivers in the First

The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood. When the English Civil War began in 1642, Parliamentary troops were garrisoned in Coleford.