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This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.

Behind is a shallow arch in which is a long poem, worth reading in full. Sir Thomas's widow Elizabeth married Lord Russell, who died in 1583; she died in 1609.

Holyrood again plays a big part in the life of Falkirk, but this time it is neither the abbey nor the palace, but the re-convened Scottish parliament.

We are looking north towards Kemple End. The first sod of the railway line at Clitheroe was cut on 30 December 1846.

He put in the vivid coloured tiles on the east wall, and he is responsible for the Perpendicular south aisle and west end. The outline of a chapel remains in the east side walls.

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

For instance, during one fair some sturdy youths released a prisoner from the stocks and carried the stocks to the mill pond, which was often (Christopher North) St Peter and St Paul are the

with forts at two-mile intervals, served as the farthest frontier of the Roman Empire for barely half a century before it was abandoned and Roman Britain withdrew to Hadrian's Wall across the north

accommodate the tens of thousands of new workers in the heavy steel industry, but the old town was also increasingly surrounded by rows and rows of terraces in Pitsmoor and Hillsborough to the north

David Lewis built Boys' Clubs and Community Centres all over the north-west.

In 64486 we are looking from the north along the line of the walls. The Chapel of St Thomas the Martyr (better known as Thomas à Becket) is at the end, through an archway to the left.

The Sunnyfield Estate originally comprised a large area of 'pleasure grounds and grass land' to the north of Westgate.

It was the same throughout north-east Surrey, and the Rural District could no longer cope.

The old Georgian house, enlarged by Henry Keene for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne in the 1750s, was entirely cased in Denner Hill stone, a very hard silicaceous stone dug a mile or so north of the

Internally, the church shows its Norman origins with two-bay arcades north and south and unmoulded arches separated by pieces of wall.

One site on the north side (Neil Wright) This was the headquarters of Holland County Council from 1927 to 1974.

The North-West Sound Archives are also based here, which do marvellous work recording people talking of their lives.

have left the city with the unique legacy of the State Management Scheme, the Second World War left Carlisle with 14 MU, a major RAF supply depot based at various sites scattered across the north

Horton, the hamlet to the north-west of Epsom, was a separate village until the 17th century, when the lords of the manor moved to Woodcote Park.

It was subsequently taken over by the North East Essex Health Authority and was used to accommodate up to 70 mentally handicapped patients and as a small day care unit.

This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

The original front of the building dated from c1500, but in 1700 it was removed and used for additions to the north-west wing. Townley Hall really is a gem in the history of Lancashire.

This last alludes to the town's on-going military associations, from the North York Militia, through the Green Howards to Catterick Camp.