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The 3rd Duke of Argyll decided to build a new castle; Roger Morrison was the architect, and William Adam was the clerk of works. The new site was about 80 yards from the old castle.

This interesting mining village, almost a town, developed in the 19th century close to the great copper mines of Consolidated and United Downs.

Mill Bank, or simply 'Loftus Bank', forms the approach to Loftus from Carlin How and, to this day, tests the skills of even the most careful driver, particularly in the winter months.

Sword dances, Morris dances and superstition were a village way of life until the end of the 19th century.

Many coaching inns were built near to the church because a large proportion of their patrons would have been travelling clergy.

At the beginning of the 19th century there were only about four hotels in Hornsea, but by the mid 19th century more were built to accommodate the influx of visitors wishing to sea bathe, which was considered

To the front of the view is the lifeboat house and boat park. The lifeboat was once crewed by women when the men of the crew were caught in a squall.

The photographer was positioned on Moor Street looking down towards the Town Gate.

The building on the left is a lodge forming part of the Hermitage estate. It is still there, but the thatch has been replaced with cedar shingles.

Here is a clutter of ramshackle warehouses, timber-yards and wharves.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark. In 1720 it was described as ‘well built, handsome, and enjoying a good trade’.

A main sewer, passing directly underneath, was discharging into the river under Westminster Bridge.The malodorous gas from this sewer was so dreadful that it extinguished the lamps of the investigating

To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair. This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

Right of the Westminster Bank stands Manor Court, which was built as a merchant's house in 1550; in the upper rooms, some ceilings still retain their fine plasterwork decoration.

Of the castle buildings, on the left is the palace (reconstructed 1617), the Half-Moon Battery and Forewall Battery.

He fell in love with Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister to Charles I); rumour has it that they secretly married after the death of her husband, Frederick V the Elector Palatine.

These are the gaunt Victorian lines of the Coastguard Station at West Bay, looking eastwards towards East Cliff, with Rocket Houses seaward from it (right).

Taken in the famous J Block, sited on the original location of the first Vauxhall production facility in Luton, this photograph shows Vauxhall Wyverns nearing the end of the assembly line.

The City Headquarters building, designed in 1927 by A E and Trevor Sawday, encapsulates an air of civic authority whilst at the same time exhaling a breath of almost domestic-scale confidence in

By the mid nineteen-sixties the grime of a coal fire age is beginning to be cleaned off.

Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.

The first ones started running in 1923, and carried on until 1963.

The Maxim Flying Machine is operating, and several of its gondolas can be seen whizzing round and round.

Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.