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How did Stone get its name?

The rocky coast around Heysham Head pro- vided excitement and danger for its Victorian and Edwardian visitors. No holiday in Morecambe or Lancaster was complete without a day at Heysham.

A top of the range television set - twice the size of the little boxes on which the nation viewed the Coronation two years earlier - stands in the communal room at the end of the first line of Golden Acre

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

The Prince Albert stands further south on Horley Road, actually in South Earlsfield rather than Salfords, and north of the junction of Horley Road with Woodhatch Road.

Stourport grew around the former village of Little Mitton by a stroke of fortune.

Under the two awnings on the left are Foster`s bakery (advertising Hovis above) and Clunas the chemist (advertising Iron Jelloids). Further down, on the pavement, is the town`s pump.

This is the second public house of the village, and a lot less famous than the Maypole. It was originally a beer house, which was established as the village grew.

The centre was of particular importance to London's disabled as a resort. The Winged Fellowship used it as a centre for respite care and holidays for the disabled.

At 511ft, Cairn Top is the highest of the hills overlooking the town.

In 1900 it was decided that the cargo handling and berthing facilities at Avonmouth needed upgrading so that the larger steamers then being built could use the port.

As can be seen here, roads in the mid 1950s were a lot quieter than they are today. In 1955 UK car production reached a new record of nearly 900,000 cars and home sales were counted at over 500,000.

From one of these fine thatched cottages John Hassell plied his trade as a porter.

The caverns at Castleton were, and still are, a popular day out for people from the Sheffield area.

This was one of two viaducts on the Manx Northern line between St John's and Ramsey. The other was at Glen Mooar.

The Jubilee Clock at the junction of Victoria Street and Loch Promenade was presented to the people of Douglas by George Dumbell in 1887.

It was built at the expense of local MP David Chadwick, who also paid for the initial stock of 10,000 books.

In Anglo-Saxon times a church dedicated to St Werburgh stood on part of the site now occupied by the cathedral. St Werburgh was a daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia.

Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

These attractive ivy-clad ruins are not as ancient as they look: they are part of the castle constructed as a folly by Walter May along with his 170 foot high tower.

A large hoarding advertising Fry's Chocolate on the side of the building replaces the signwriting.

How did Stone get its name?

Standing as it does at the southern end of some of the most spectacular scenery in the midlands, the area has been popular with tourists for nearly two hundred years.