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It was built because the Forbes family did not want Callendar House to look onto a canal. The tunnel is 630 metres long.

The hall was built in 1796 on the site of Coghill Hall, a Tudor house from 1555. Another famous resident of Knaresborough, Jack Metcalfe, was born within sight of the castle in 1717.

The Duke of Clarence opened the Technical and Art College on the site of the old Thornes House in 1891, and this adjacent park (29 acres), once grazing land, was opened to the public on 6 July

Landmarks ancient and modern, still familiar to us today, cluster on the right of the picture. These include St John's Church, Howell's store and the Cottage public house.

The stones’ power and influence has perhaps been diminished since the creation of a nearby housing estate, which has hardly contributed to the mystery and presence the stones once commanded.

Under the church tower can be seen the former Hilltop Wine Bar, its fake timbering hiding a good example of 17th-century framing, while to the left of the tower is a fine house by Sir Ernest George.

The Bell public house (right) dates from the 18th century.

Tea rooms and public houses, like the Three Horse Shoes (left), have always been a necessity in the village - when the estate was being investigated for purchase by the First Garden City company, Norton

The withdrawal of shopping from the village is not a recent phenomenon; in fact, it began prior to the First World War, when the shops on the western slope became houses, leaving only their large windows

Landmarks ancient and modern, still familiar to us today, cluster on the right of the picture. These include St John's Church, Howell's store and the Cottage public house.

It takes its name from having housed a bookshop, which traded as the Marine Circulating Library in 1840. The architect and artist Arnold Mitchell retired here.

Since 1891, Mr Hillary has sold his jeweller's shop to Mr Boothroyd (centre right), and the house next to the Buck Hotel, has been replaced with a shop front and the arrival in the town of

Here we see the old lifeboat house on Formby Beach, looking isolated and abandoned, as it was at this time.

Designed in Grecian style and proportions by Sir Charles Barry, who also designed the Houses of Parliament, it was built as a home for the Royal Institution of Manchester.

In the High Street several very high quality brick-fronted houses were erected with fashionable sash windows, modillioned cornices and parapets.

Gordon Bottomley, poet and playwright, was born in 1874 in the Dutch-style house on the right.

The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers. There was a bandstand on the green, an outdoor and indoor skating rink, three cinemas and a stage for Pierrots.

In the small hours of Sunday 16 February 1941, the church was seriously damaged in an air-raid; services had to be held in the Sunday School for some time afterwards.

Picturesquely perched on top of its steep knoll and surrounded by a sea of 20th- century housing, the church of St Nicholas, Laindon, possibly dates from the 12th century.

The female staff lived inside the house in the background, Southfield, while the patients were accommodated in a collection of eight wooden huts to the left.

In 1494, Henry VII decided to adapt the chapel of Henry II and Edward II as his tomb-house. Master mason Henry Janyns and the original designer William Vertue took on the work in 1478 and 1484.

The early 16th-century Queen's Armes is described by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as 'an unusually complete example of a small late medieval house'.

Some of the Crag houses can be seen behind. The big building by the harbour is Slaters, who exported many cargoes of lime at that time.

In fact the earliest use of the name was only in 1791 and the place is now considered to have begun merely as the house of a wealthy local merchant.