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Just by the lamp standard (centre right), and with its own premises decorated with two lanterns, are the Staines Iron Works.

There are also two seats donated by the squadron survivors.

At this time Trentham Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however, the

Nearby is a memorial to a World War Two fighter airfield, which was used by the American Air Force.

If required to wait and then bring the clients back to Altrincham, it would be charged out by the hour.

Steering was by the two small wheels on the right, linked by a system of rods, and drive was by a crank axle chain-geared to the large left-hand wheel.

About 1,000 acres of land, extending five miles along the coast and five miles northwards, were taken over by the military during World War Two, and have yet to be returned to the public.

The earliest tourists to the Lake District were overwhelmed by the 'horrid' and 'frightful' nature of the mountains and crags, which frowned down on them as they negotiated the passes.

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

Wicker baskets carried by the ladies (in the right-hand rowing boat) were very much a feature of life until quite recent times.

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

Its name derives from the 'Gait-House', which was built by the Murrays in the 17th century, the 'gait' being the road from Dumfries to Creetown.

The cathedral spire seen beyond collapsed in 1861 and was rebuilt by the great Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott.

The church of St Mary on the north side of the road opposite the Abbey has traces of its Norman origins; it is mostly Early English and Decorated Gothic, but was heavily restored by the Victorians.

During the First World War the house was occupied by the military authorities, and was used for the confinement of captured German officer prisoners.

The power for the lifts was provided by a hydraulic water-power system that came directly from the pump house situated on Quay Street, by the River Irwell, where the water came from.

Its construction was started in 1574 by the Comptons, who later became earls of Northampton, and the great courtyard house was completed in the earlier 17th century.

The tall cross, with its statues in their canopied niches, is the best surviving Eleanor Cross - one of a series erected by the distraught King Edward I wherever his wife Eleanor of Castile's coffin rested

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

Opened in 1882, it was designed by the leading architect Basil Champneys in a Jacobethan style, with numerous shaped gables and mullioned and transomed windows.

The bull on top of the bracket survives, although not in its original form - it is a replacement made by the local technical college.

The shop on the right was replaced in the 1930s by the neo-Georgian offices, Royal Chambers, and beyond the gabled building, now the Bedfordshire Probation Service, several buildings made way for the Granada

Immediately south-east of the town is Tring Park, its park now bisected by the A41.

At this time Trentham Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.Within a few years, however,