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The reference to the Town Hall is to the one erected in 1795 to the designs of Alderman Bradshaw to replace the earlier one he demolished.

Saltaire owes its existence to Sir Titus Salt, who moved his alpaca and mohair mills here in the 1850s. The railway station is on the Midland line from Bradford to Skipton.

The well-laid-out Hamilton Square in the centre of Birkenhead is named after the town's founder, John Laird, in honour of his Scottish mother.

This village is referred to as 'Torintone' in the Domesday book, but during the reign of Edward II it, and much of the surrounding land, came into the possession of Roger de Thornton, whose only daughter

Of the latter W G Gardner, station-master at Coulsdon South from 1891, recorded in 1916 the growth of the parish from a hamlet to an urban district: `Red Lion Green was a Green in every particular

The canal meets the River Gade at Heath Park, to the south of Marlowes.

Although the Gothic style flint and Bath stone cruciform church was completed in 1886, it was not consecrated until 1888 due to strong and often bitter opposition from the rector of Broadwater and

Since 1838 Fleetwood had had a theatrical pavilion in Dock Street, and a daily conveyance at Poulton met the Fylde Union coach to and from Fleetwood's new bathing station, but it did not have a pier.

The house belonged to the Crown, but was always leased to tenants.

Cheltenham is (rather self consciously) the capital of the Cotswolds; it stands in the Vale under the western escarpment.

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

As well as smack-rigged river barges, Bideford was home to a number of polacca brigantines, the smallest British square-rigged merchant sailing vessels.

Pigot and Co's National Commercial Directory, published in 1830, gives an interesting snapshot of the town just before its rapid decline (the building of the Great Western Railway killed both the

tried to set fire to the cathedral and destroy the images.

Looking up towards St Mary's church. 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.

A casualty station was set up there during the air raids on Cowes on the night of 4 and 5 May 1942.

They felt a need to fill 'The Surrey wilderness', an area of under-representation for Methodism, and significant funding came from a fund set up by Hugh Price Hughes: unfortunately, he died before

The road at this junction has traffic going in both directions, unlike today, when as part of the High Street one-way system the traffic now flows towards the market cross.

The neighbouring estate to the Chaloners' Gisborough estate, the Hutton and Pinchinthorpe estate, was bought in the 1860s by the Quaker industrialist, Joseph Whitwell Pease of Darlington.

The clothing shops had awnings to fend off fading from the powerful sun. The upper floors of the blocks were given over to offices catering for the total life of the busy town.

IMAGINE an area of low-lying marshland riddled with secret smugglers' paths and tales of Wat Tyler's doomed revolt.

Raglan Castle is probably one of the most majestic castles in Wales. Set upon a ridge amidst a wondrous landscape, it has cast an impressive shadow over the area for centuries.

In the early 1900s, no village was without its blacksmith's shop.

Cheltenham is (rather self consciously) the capital of the Cotswolds; it stands in the Vale under the western escarpment.