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By 1899 we see that the old two-storey bay window of the Cock Inn has gone, to be replaced by a new shop front installed by Mr Fairburn, who had moved his chemist's and druggist's business

High on the 600ft cliff and looking towards Robin Hood's Bay is the Raven Hall Hotel, once the site of a Roman signal station.

Local collectors found themselves £100 short to complete the construction, so they turned to Trinity House, who donated the money on the understanding that the monument could be used as working lighthouse

The trustees of the turnpike pressured the Common Council into allowing them to widen the road here in 1767 by demolishing the southern part of the old hospital, truncating it to the present

In April 1956, Commander Lionel Crabb, Britain's finest frogman, disappeared whilst diving at Stokes Bay, Gosport. On 17 April, Mr Crabb had stayed overnight at the Sallyport Hotel in Old Portsmouth.

In 1811 the local boat builder at Salcombe completed the ketch 'Ceres' for Capt William Lewis of Bude for trading with north Spanish ports, though for much of 1813 and 1814 she was employed carrying

However, all this changed with the coming of the railways.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.

We are looking north-westwards up Bell Street from the Assembly Rooms. Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

The impressive facade of the Hotel Metropole, with the Ship Hotel next door, faced the end of the Jetty to greet the thousands of holidaymakers who travelled down on the paddle steamers.

Note the unmarked roads. A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop.

Salford was an area of Blackburn; the name derives from 'salix (willow tree) ford'. This is where the old pack horse trail to Accrington and the east crossed the River Blakewater in a shallow ford.

Princess Street is running away to the left, with the big bay window on the corner of the building.

The nave arcade is built in the late Romanesque style, in which the rounded Norman arches begin to change to the pointed Gothic style.

Holywell developed by the Great Ouse as a traditional `ring` village: the main street runs around the perimeter of the community with only one access road.

, the police station, the ambulance station and the clinic in 1962.

The scene has changed much since the days of Richard Ansdell RA, when he ordered his house Starr Hills to be built, and this was a wild and lonely area of marram grass covered sandhills.

I GOT up at 6 o'clock as the sun was rising behind the Tors.

When in 1884 the young Reverend Francis Boyd became the Vicar of Teddington, it was apparent that even with these changes the capacity of St Mary's Church would never cope with the new dimensions

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

To save time, an off-the-shelf Laird's design was chosen; the three-ship deal cost the GWR £100,000.