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Two years later the Art Gallery opened, and the whole building came into use.

Technically, Wilmslow was just the parish church and its immediate graveyard, however, the name is now given to the whole of the community.

Butter was cut from a huge slab, sugar was weighed into stiff blue bags and biscuits also came loose - weighed out from large square tins.

In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

In fact, Disley has always been a roadside settlement: its existence goes back to a time when a Roman road came through here.

The impressive lozenge-shaped stone came from a surface outcrop of sarsen stones (the word sarsen derives from Saracen, and means stranger) which can be found on the Marlborough Downs about two miles away

A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

In 1948, St John's Hospital for the aged and infirm came on site. A girls' hostel was added in 1972, and sheltered housing for the elderly was built in 1982.

Spence said that his design came to him when he was under the influence of anaesthetic for toothache: he saw zigzagging walls and an altar ablaze with light.

Its civic duties came to an end in 1985 when the building was taken over by the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society.

Personalities like Oscar Wilde, Shackleton, Einstein, Winston Churchill and members of European royal families came here, to name but a few.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

Further alterations were made by the Wyatt family when it came into their possession in 1493, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the father of the English sonnet, was born here in 1503.

At the time this photograph was taken, the bend in the road was a notorious accident black spot: here heavily laden lorries often came to grief on the long descent down Blakeney Hill into the village

The Thames and Severn Canal came this way, and the route of the old towpath can still be walked for considerable sections; but it is the pits left by extensive gravel extraction that have been

The main employer was Addis, the brush manufacturers, who came to Hertford in the 1920s when they took over the premises of the Hertford Steam Laundry Company.

Further alterations were made by the Wyatt family when it came into their possession in 1493, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the father of the English sonnet, was born here in 1503.

The big house (the castle) was not yet begun, and it came without a long drive. The two are within sight of each other and complete the picture. There are fine houses loooking on to take their share.

Hameline de Balun established the first castle here between 1085 and 1138, and it later came into the ownership of William de Braose.

This essentially industrial village dating from the 17th and 18th centuries was on a pack horse route, but long before that Bronze Age traders came through.

GMC executives came over from the US to get work back to normal after the war. Much of the firm's success was due to David Jones, the industry's longest-serving design executive.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

It then moved to Silver Street, and finally came to rest here in 1904. The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.