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In spite of its large empire, Britain was badly prepared for war. However, it was amazing how well folk improvised. Work was hard.

The area caught the attention of both William Wordsworth, who visited the village and featured it in a poem, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote Come into the Garden, Maud at Brancepeth.

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

By the time of this photograph Cromer had experienced a continuing building boom, which included new premises for fashionable stores such as Jarrold & Sons (left), who are still flourishing both in Cromer

The Book in Hand (left) is mentioned in the mid 1800s, but it was badly damaged by fire in 1981 and the two bays have gone.

The Book in Hand (left) is mentioned in the mid 1800s, but it was badly damaged by fire in 1981 and the two bays have gone.

On 4 January 1859 the railway arrived; it was to join Godalming and Havant stations, and as a consequence, it was possible to travel from London Waterloo to Portsmouth direct.

There was even a bomb plot! The Chartists held meetings behind the Unicorn Hotel and on one occasion a crude explosive device was found there.

The statues are badly worn by the strong westerly winds (which give the name of 'kill canon corner' to the north-west corner); they were also damaged by the 17th-century iconoclasts, who

Whilst a driffold was set up near to the manor to impound stray animals, the area around the parish church was developing apace.

in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.

Many people approached their houses by grass tracks, and drew water from a well or carried buckets to a standpipe (sometimes a half-mile away); they cooked by paraffin or coal and lit their homes

They are home not only to rare birds such as redshank, snipe, lapwing, reed bunting, little ringed plover, goosander, shoveler, tufted duck and widgeon, but also to endangered mammals like the

They are home not only to rare birds such as redshank, snipe, lapwing, reed bunting, little ringed plover, goosander, shoveler, tufted duck and widgeon, but also to endangered mammals like the

From 1874 there was a long period of depression, and farmers found it increasingly difficult to make a living on the land through a series of wet summers and bad harvests.

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

We are looking at Parliament Square from an upstairs window on the corner of Parliament Street abd Bridge Street during the First World War.

Whalley means 'the clearing or field by the hill', and we can see how close the hill, known as Whalley Nab, is from our photograph.