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A new grammar school was built on the site at Wessington in 1957, the first in the county of Wiltshire, with 360 places for boys and girls.

The crowded stand, erected in front of the yellow brick gymnasium with its two towers, indicates that this is probably a match between county teams held during the annual Cheltenham Cricket Festival, rather

On the far right is the old school on the corner of Pebble Lane, which leads back into Kingsbury; it is now an exhibition gallery for the County Museum.

The closest is the lamp outside Frederick Wright's County Cigar Store. He supplied the Prince of Wales with Ariston cigarettes. Opposite is the Corn Exchange.

The River Ouzel - the original boundary between the counties - divides the jointly-named town.

In the immediate post-war era, Luton was a medium sized town - albeit a county borough - about to become very much larger.

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

County Down embraces the scene from the Copeland Islands until the Hollywood Hills merge with White Head. The far view is completed with the full run of the Rhinns of Galloway.

The Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust, in collaboration with Hertfordshire County Council, carried out a major restoration in the 1960s, and they now stand proudly as a memorial to what might have

The large war memorial dominates the square in front of the County Hotel.

allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however, the Sutherlands had abandoned Trentham: in 1910 the fourth Duke offered it for sale to the county

It is appropriate that our east to west town tour should start in the cathedral city of Chichester, the county town of West Sussex and one with a very long history.

Rothesay is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute, in an ideal location in the sheltered 'sweet Rothesay Bay', to quote the popular song.

Tring is in Hertfordshire, a market town at the base of a salient of the county that projects into Buckinghamshire from the Chilterns along the valley of the River Bulbourne.

allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however, the Sutherlands had abandoned Trentham: in 1910 the fourth Duke offered it for sale to the county

Few buildings remain which pre-date the Enclosure Acts, effectively extinguishing the ties within rural communi- ties in much of Leicestershire, and indeed the Midland counties.

Amongst other businesses is the chemist beyond the Crown Hotel and opposite, the family firm of Matkin's printers, who from 1881 to 1941 published an almanac listing people and occupations in town and county

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The main line belonged to the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, but there was a locally-owned Carrickfergus Harbour Junction Railway.

St Mary Magdalene's church in the village contains the county's first collection of monumental brasses, commemorating the Cobham family.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.

The first chapter starts, fittingly, with a portrait of the county town, the city of Nottingham, in the 1950s. We start in the heart of the city in Old Market Square.