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This seemingly quiet street has a bustle of yards and courts behind the facades of the shops and dwellings.

The relics of St Cuthbert are alleged to have rested in twelve places, in what is now Lancashire, during the 9th century.

Rifleman in East Street, a Canadian soldier was arrested and taken to the police station in Ashley Road, despite the complaints of his friends.

WE BEGIN the tour of the city by the Dean's Eye gate-house, the dropping-off point both for mod- ern tour coaches and ancient stagecoaches.

Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside.

The royal connections with this park probably go back further that with other parks, beginning with Edward I (1272-1307), when the area was part of the Manor of Shene; the name was changed to Richmond

The name Corless is associated with the family who lived at Springfield House, Pilling.

The castellated entrance to Townley Hall, on the A671 Todmorden Road at Burnley Wood, was photographed when it was still a private estate.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting. Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

To save time, an off-the-shelf Laird's design was chosen; the three-ship deal cost the GWR £100,000.

ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.

All the local farming families tried to get back to Alderley for Wakes week in the third week of August.

Going back to the beginning of the 19th century, Loakes Manor together with its park was sold in August 1798 to the Right Honourable Robert Smith, Lord Carrington, a prosperous banker and friend

Just a few years later, Christchurch Mansion was built on the site of the 12th century priory of the Holy Trinity.

The situation resulted in the formation of a local Board of Health. Their headquarters, ironically, were in the same Middle Row house where the first cholera victims had died.

It was 'a handsome house … built in the modern taste, and adorned with shrubberies', when seen by the cartographer John Edwards.

ONE of the great joys of Exmouth is its beautiful setting, caught magnificently between the sea, the long Exe estuary and the wilder countryside of heath and cliff that so defines east Devon, offering

Also lost during the town centre development was the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which had stood on the corner of the Parade and Newhall Street.

For instance, Hamaele is the Saxon name for the district of the early settlement, but by the 13th century the town was known as Hamelhamstede.

THE YEARS of decline that had marked the first part of the 1990s were decisively reversed during the last years of the old century and the early years of the new millennium.

William decided to shut this 'back gate' to his kingdom by building a royal fortress at the entrance to the valley.