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It was supplemented by this fine Tudor-style battlemented building when the Harpur Trust built the Modern School, or the Harpur Schools, in the 1830s; the building was designed by the renowned

At the end of the smart De Parys Avenue, Bedford Park was laid out to designs by the noted park designers William Barron and Sons from Derby in 1883 during Hawkins's first mayoralty.

Arrested, tried for treason and condemned, Murdoch Stewart died by the axe on Heading Hill, Stirling. Doune was used as a royal residence until 1528 when it was returned to a descendant of Albany.

Subsequently the Hoo was remodelled in 1903 by the diamond entrepreneur Sir Julius Wernher, and housed the Wernher art collection until recent reversals in the family's affairs led to a sale of the property

This is pre- dated by the white building with jetties directly ahead on the corner - beneath the render it is almost certainly half-timbered.

The corrugated iron building was purchased in 1959 to house the Sunday School, but it was later moved by the Scouts and Cubs to use as their HQ.

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

The proposed removal of the tree by the maltings in the 1980s was the subject of a general protest.

Here and above we see contrasting aspects of one of the town's most important thoroughfares: a quiet residential section overlooked by the comforting bulk of the Town Hall, and the busy shopping

On the right is a bathing machine, which would be trundled down into the shallows by the patient horse so that lady bathers could dip their toes with no fear of prying eyes.

The Lincoln Co-op (extreme left) has gone, to be replaced by the Job Centre and a Cycle Centre. The small J Corby shop opposite is now Las Vegas Amusements.

The Hoo was subsequently remodelled in 1903 by the diamond entrepreneur Sir Julius Wernher, and housed the Wernher art collection until recent reversals in the family's affairs led to a sale of the property

Here we see West Row; East Row is on the right by the second stream. The spectacular coastal railway from Whitby to Loftus ran here between 1883 to 1958.

Cistercian monks came from prosperous Fountains Abbey in 1148 to found Sawley, which is three miles from Clitheroe and by the river Ribble.

The war memorial with its bronze relief panels by Griffin was formally dedicated in September 1921 and unveiled by the Earl of Abingdon.

Hundreds of locals came to see it, and 'tarmacadam' became a huge success.This is the Shirburne's village; it was started by the family to house estate workers, and servants from nearby Stonyhurst,

Long Alley, the oldest, established by the local merchants' Fraternity of the Holy Cross in 1446, was re-founded in 1553 as Christ's Hospital.

It is still at the heart of the town, but now it has a black metal surround erected by the Town Council.

This was given by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), who donated part of his American fortune to building libraries in the United Kingdom in memory of what he had learnt in his Scottish youth

The road works warned of by the sign were never likely to be the cause of too many traffic jams when car ownership was still quite low and the availability and use of public transport correspondingly

In 1929 the council negotiated the purchase, at a very reasonable figure, of a large area of land owned by the Fleming family, who were the patrons of North Stoneham, and it was named Fleming Park.

Daventry stagnated after the Railway Age as it was by-passed by the main line. Its profitable coach trade along Watling Street was also destroyed.

The church is built of a grey sandstone; the scraping of the interior has left it somewhat dull, but relieved by the royal arms dated 1684 above the chancel arch.

The present church is the nave of the priory; the chancel and transepts were demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by the new owners, the Radcliffes.