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The traffic level is remarkably low, and it is safe to ride a bicycle.

Winifred Holtby lived in this road while she was writing her novel 'South Riding'.

Opposite were the Urban District Council Offices and the indoor riding school for the Rutland Fencibles, a volunteer cavalry regiment raised by the Noels in 1794.

Pony rides have always been popular in Yarmouth; the problem of disposal of the droppings is still a disputed one, with local authorities sometimes suggesting that the ponies should wear nappies.

Close to the junction of Nine Mile Ride, New Wokingham Road and Honey Hill, we can see Chappell's Store, clearly the local retailer for Salmon's Teas but also providing the facility of

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs. Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

The area is known as the Eye of Yorkshire, or the Eye of the Ridings. Parliamentary elections were held here until the 19th century. Two of the courts are still used on a daily basis.

Old Hill's official name is St Thomas Hill, and it was once used as a toboggan run when there was snow on the ground — rather a hair-raising ride!

There are refreshments booths, gingerbread sellers, seats to rent by the hour, and donkey rides.

After the Flying Machine ride was dismantled part of the site was incorporated into a miniature railway.

Maltby is one of four West Riding settlements credited in the Domesday survey with having four mills; the others are Tanshelf, Dadsley and Kippax.

Then, as today, horse-drawn carriage rides were popular, as were the electric trams, which were the first operating anywhere in the country and came into service along the promenade in 1885.

The children playing at the water's edge have made a proper occasion of it by bringing a wigwam, and notice the two tots riding on the donkeys; instead of wobbling about on saddles, they sit in the comfortable

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

She was visiting Ludlow at the time, and went out riding in the countryside nearby with a large party of retainers; she was caught in a storm, and sought shelter here for the night.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

The riders take their leave of the supporters and prepare to set off for a day's hard riding across the surrounding countryside - not in pursuit of a deer, such as that depicted on the inn sign, but of

Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.

Below the lake, a small menagerie, pony rides and swingboats provided other entertainments. After closing in the 1970s, the lake is now a trout fishery.

At an earlier date Thornaby was known as South Stockton, and was part of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

A safe haven for cyclists on a sunny day - some manage to ride two abreast toward the photographer.

The small horse-drawn carts carried less active holiday-makers onto the sands, but could probably be hired as an alternative to a donkey ride.

Old Hill's official name is St Thomas Hill, and it was once used as a toboggan run when there was snow on the ground — rather a hair-raising ride!

The ride cost 6d and lasted for one complete revolution of the wheel. However, every time one of the cars reached the bottom the wheel was stopped while it was unloaded and reloaded.