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A sign of the growing commercialisation of the street can be seen in the Red House`s transformation to the District Bank, and the private house beyond has become a high class decorator.

The last survivors of the colony were burnt or massacred in the Temple of Claudius.

The Customs and Shipping Offices on the corner of Station Stret opened in 1925.

The Saracen's Head—on the right of this picture—was a famous coaching inn at Great Dunmow, a town associated since 1949 with the Dunmow Flitch ceremony.This had originated at Little Dunmow in 1140

The locks at Fleckney are a part of the descent of the canal from its high point at Foxton into the Soar Valley.

About 1785, Sir Richard Hotham, a wealthy Southwark hatter, who determined upon acquiring the glory of a seaside Romulus, set to work to erect a town of first-class villas in this pleasant spot, with a

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

Sketchley was later appointed assistant keeper of the Science & Art Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

This lath and plaster cottage with rust-coloured locally-made roof tiles is typical of the cottages which have been in this part of the town since the 15th century.

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

A view of Leeds Mechanics' Institute. This imposing Italianate building, with its lofty round-arched windows, was built by Cuthbert Brodrick in the late 1860s. It later became the Civic Theatre.

The memorial was given by the chief magistrate and the widow of the first mayor (under the 1874 Charter), Pearson Gates.

This view looks through the entrance towards the inn yard, all of which survives to this day.

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire

At this time, local industry was closing down; Bacup, which was off the beaten track, was looking for residents to commute to work in Burnley, Manchester or other towns.

Serving at the front in the First World War, Brooke wrote a short poem called 'The Soldier'; surely he had Grantchester in mind when he composed these lines: 'If I should die, think only this of me: That

In this carefully composed picture we see the lower part of the village. The two men, one holding the horse and one with his dog, are everything a photographer could want in a village scene.

Through the famous Cow and Calf Rocks high up on Ilkley Moor, we can see the estate of Denton Park, once the home of the Fairfax family.

This heavily-decorated Victorian building was built by E W Godwin in 1864; as the picture demonstrates, it consists of two storeys with a clock tower, a turreted gable and endless lines of windows.

Most evocative of past shopping is The Fifty Shilling Tailors, a chain that grew up before World War II and originally offered suits for that price.

This fine building was built on the site of the relocated lifeboat station; its façade betrays its construction in stages.