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Canon Sir James Philipps, rector from 1859 to 1897, paid Blomfield to renew the church of St Denys in 1887- 89.

On the right is the Notre Dame School, founded by two sisters in the mid 19th century. The school closed in 1975, and the building was later demolished.

In 1930 the Ecclesall Union Hospital came under local government control and was renamed Nether Edge. The institution had an interesting history.

Modernisation came during the 19th century when the mill was equipped with a steam engine.

The wide end of the Ironmarket was also known as Butchers' Row; even its supply of water came to the surface courtesy of the Butchery Pump.

Even the Pre-Raphaelites came. The arrival of the railway in 1867, and the 1872 National Bank Holiday Act, opened Walton up to everybody.

In the church of St John the Evangelist, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house designed by the architect Norman

From this came the nautical cry of 'ahoy'. They continued to operate into the 19th century, until ousted by the steam packet service in about 1815.

The Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station was established in the valley just inland from the beach at Porthcurno, where undersea cables came ashore.

This eastern entrance eventually came to be known as Bellgate, since the Bell public house stands further up the hill to the right.

This track could be part of the route along which came supplies of wool for Dolphinholme Mill.

Walmgate came under heavy attack by cannons and mines in the 1644 siege of York.

From this came the nautical cry of 'ahoy'. They continued to operate into the 19th century, until ousted by the steam packet service in about 1815.

Glen Middle Mill 1908 If Sally Spencer, the lady looking at the photographer, came back today, she would see that almost all in this view (except the rear block of Pavey's Temperance Hotel) has

Edward VI dissolved all chantry chapels in 1549 and the building eventually came into corporation ownership. They created a grammar school.

Taw Vale Parade is to the right of the Albert Clock, whose building was started in 1862 and not completed until a decade later; the money came from public subscription.

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

The total bill came to £130 8s 6d, some of which went to '60 men of St Just who did nothing but drink beer to the value of 13s 6d'.

The space age came to Cornwall when this first dish, or antenna, was built in 1962; it received the first live television pictures via satellite from America.

The pilchard drivers came in at around 30ft in length; until the 1890s they had been open-decked. During the autumn the pilchard boats also went after herring.

The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with many such monuments, it came complete with a captured Russian cannon.

Ship building and repairing gave work to many, and Swansea came sixth in the list of British ship-owning ports. John Vivian opened the first of his copper smelting furnaces at Hafod, Swansea in 1810.

Penzance is frequently enlivened by the departure of the fleet of the fishing-boats for which the district is famed.

Even so, the city remained the customs port for Rhyl and the Deeside ports, and ships belonging to John Summers & Co were registered at Chester, though it is unlikely that they ever came up the river.