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Temple Bar was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1672, to replace the earlier City of London gate destroyed by the Great Fire, and was the last of the old city gates to survive.

A stiff climb, it is crowned by the 14th-century tower of St Michael's Church. The rest of the church has gone, but the views from the summit of the Tor are superb and long.

The project to create the gardens was undertaken by borough surveyor Frederick Hugh McDonnell, and the elegant gates at Top o' Town were ceremonially opened by the Mayor, Henry Octavius Bickley

It also features a sculptured frieze by the artist Bainbridge Copnall, which was made from fibreglass and powdered aluminium.

Work began in 1832, but the project ran into problems owing to a serious underestimate by the builders, who eventually went bankrupt.As the architects had agreed to underwrite the builders, they

By the post-war period traffic had increased, so traffic lights were installed (see K13018, pages 52). The KICS (Co-op) drapery building with Jacobean bay windows can be seen down Newland Street.

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

Bowls was one of the most popular seaside holiday pastimes and every resort had at least one bowling green, supplemented by lawn tennis courts in some cases, and of course by the more lighthearted

Even the church of Holy Trinity, masked here by the foreground tree, was built in forbidding Mountsorrel granite c1865 by Derbyshire architects, Stevens & Robinson.

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

Many myths have perpetuated that it is a burial mound , whilst geologists feel that it is a natural phenomena left by the Ice Age.

The well, marked on the 1610 John Speed map, had its well-house rebuilt by the corporation in 1843 in Gothic style.

This imposing 17th-century mansion was originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren for Henry Guy, and was formerly a home of the Gore family, before being purchased by the Rothschild banking family

The church stands at the entry to Bodmin and was passed by everyone travelling through the county before the town was by- passed by the A30.

The original house, owned by the Napier family, burnt down in 1742, and the wealthy Humphrey Sturt, who had married an heiress, inherited the estate in 1765.

The gates were presented to the town by the Duke of Bedford, and the park was opened by his eldest son, the Marquess of Tavistock, in July 1888 during Joshua Hawkins's fourth mayoralty.

This view gives a good idea of the village centre: the former inn, The Ragged Staff, is by the telephone pole, and the thatched cottage opposite, The Ovens, is dated 1699.

demolished ones in that view were replaced by Dawes Close, a group of single storey cottages, built in 1959 for the Mary Gertrude Davies Trust, set around a small green whose access can be seen by the

By the 1890s it was not just the hulls of merchant sailing ships that were being constructed of iron or steel; many also carried steel masts, spars and fittings.

This slow growth of population in the 1900s is explained by the fact that Runcorn was very much a cul-de-sac town.

On his return he was captured by the forces of the future Henry IV, and met his death in Pontefract Castle soon afterwards. Searches have been made, but nothing has ever been found!

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.