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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.

Another view of the south front shows the extent of the alterations and extensions carried out by Richard Chaloner and his wife Margaret, who was also instrumental in the laying out of the

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

Both the town centre and the High Street in general face increasing competition in the form of 'out of town' shopping, following the creation of the retail park.

The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.

Here we have another view of the village, with its cottages and barns built in its local sandstone.

The single street leads down to the river. An Austin A30 is parked beside an Armstrong Siddeley. Originally these 18th-century red brick cottages were for estate workers.

1498-1570), another wealthy landowner and vice-Admiral of the Crown. The trouble started over the cargo of a French merchant ship wrecked on Oxwich Point.

This old gateway in the 19th century gave access to the Taylors Arms, the building half-way up on the left, which was destroyed by fire in 1930.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

On the far side of the pond a smartly-attired coachman in a top hat has diverted from the foot of the High Street to allow his equine companion, and the wheelrims of his trap, to cool in the water.

Perhaps it is the time of one of the annual fairs, rather than an ordinary market day, as stalls can be seen on both sides of Trinity Church Square.

The Manor nearby was built on the site of a small Benedictine foundation of the early 12th century, dissolved in 1414.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

Behind the parked van on the left are the premises once occupied by W Good's drapery and millinery shop, next to the ornate facade of the mid-Victorian Town Hall with its clock.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

The white monument is the memorial to the fishermen Abram and Greenall, who lost their lives trying to save another fisherman.

While the development of the railway network brought an ever-increasing number of day-trippers to the seaside, by the late-Victorian period the railway was also conveying an increasing number of

The railway line was on the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway, which had opened in 1849.

Derelict land on both sides of Broadway was screened by wooden hoardings and there were many complaints about this barren and unsightly part of town.

Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.

Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920.