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The Harris Orphanage opened in 1888 after £100,000 was set aside by the Trustees of the Harris Estate to build and equip such an establishment.

It was considered a magical stone where barren women would press their breast against the stone in hope of a child!

A lace maker works at a floral sprig of Honiton lace outside her cottage door at Beer in South Devon.

The pleasant market town of Abergele lies just inland from the chalets and caravans of the north coast between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

Roath Park was laid out in 1894 at a cost of £62,000 - a considerable sum in those days. The land, 132 acres, was presented to the city by Lord Bute.

The railway finally arrived at the village in 1902, with the opening of the line to Skipton. Here groups of children have gathered to be photographed in the broad cobbled square.

During the early decades of the 19th century, Bristol was losing trade to Hull, Liverpool, London and the South Wales ports owing to its high dock charges.

The Earl of Derby both gave the land and also paid for the construction of the market, which opened in 1841.

sixties. 1965 was the first full year in office for the Labour Government, the Beatles were awarded MBEs in the Birthday honours' list, and an 'experimental' 70mph maximum speed limit was introduced on

Besides the vast acreage of excavated docks, there were numerous riverside wharfs, from the grandeur of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge to this rather less grand one near the west entrance to the Royal

Bilsington is a small village on the main Hythe to Tenterden road. Once near the sea, it is now several miles inland. Near this cross-roads stands a jagged finger of brickwork pointing to the sky.

Mr Boyd had clearly set his stall up to catch the eye of the visitor with spades for the beach along with gifts and photographs to take home.

In the background of this picture stands the Gas Works jetty. Pier Hill leads down to the sea front esplanade, with the Palace Hotel on the left.

South-west of the town centre, along the Ampthill Road, on a large site between it and the railway line, the County Schools were built in the 1880s on a grand plan with a massive tower and,

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

When the Huguenots arrived from France, the Dean and Chapter gave them the Lady Chapel as their place of worship - it was separated from the rest of the cathedral and remained in their use until the 18th

In 1927, under the Birkenhead Extension Act, to celebrate its 50 years the town took in more outlying areas, thus doubling its original size of 1872. Woodchurch was one of those areas taken in.

The original Eleanor Cross, one of twelve erected by Edward I along the route taken by his wife's funeral cortege, was built in 1291 from Caen stone and Sussex and Purbeck marble and inset with precious

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

At the end of the siege, the garrison was accorded the honours of war, and the castle was ordered to be slighted so that cannon could no longer be mounted on its towers.

Whereas Marton and South Fylde worshippers had to bring their dead to St Chad's, the parish church of Poulton, people from the new town of Fleetwood had to come to Meadows Avenue, which used to be called

The tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub (left) faces out on to a six-acre cricket ground in the centre of this lovely hamlet between Milford and Haslemere.

It was the coming of the railway that made Fleet a sought-after address, and it has remained a popular country town ever since.

Board sailing was invented here: this was confirmed by a High Court ruling in 1982 stating that Peter Chilvers invented the sail board at Hayling in 1958 when, as a boy of ten, he used a sheet of plywood