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The house and its contents, including the photographs of prominent Socialist leaders (on the mantelpiece, left), were bequeathed to the National Trust; they, and the annual Midsummer Art Festival, attract

The row of houses stretching up to the Antrim Road has the name Jubilee Terrace, celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

A monument near the south porch in the churchyard has a simple inscribed slab of 1930 to Christopher Wood, the painter who lived in nearby Reddish House, which has since been the home of Cecil

The estate was sold, not to Manchester Council as expected, but to a property speculator called E T Hooley, who brought in the General Manager of the Ship Canal to develop the park into a sport and housing

By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks. By 1880 water was being piped from Grizedale reservoir, and a new railway station was ready in the same year.

School commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, an eminent Victorian architect, most famous for designing the Natural History Museum in London, to design the new Grammar School buildings and the headmaster's house

The actors stayed at Peak Farm and Corby House during their twelve weeks of summer shooting on location. All the film stock was stored in the stables at the hotel.

between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old stone houses

Having completed the tour of Daventry town centre, we now look at some of the 20th-century housing and industrial development.

Safer livings were gained beyond river and sea when commercial growth pro- vided jobs in hotels, houses, shops, clubs and banks.

The diminutive building just beyond it, at the other corner of Donegall Place, was now the Royal Hotel, but it had been built by Lord Donegall as his town house.

This splendid setting shows off St Mary's alongside Chieveley Manor House, which is of red brick with a hipped roof.

At Baldock it formed the length of White Horse Street and Hitchin Street.

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to the ancient

other hand, the earliest that Brierley Hill is known to have been inhabited is 1619, though by the mid 18th century it too was noted for its coal pits, nail-making, brickworks, forges and glass- houses

They were escorted over the hills by the Earl of Ilchester's Yeomanry after spending a couple of nights at Melbury House.

The Tontine, overlooking the canal basin, offers traditional draught beers and food, but in 1788 it was owned by the Canal Company; the houses on each side of the original inn were used by hop merchants

In 1922 it housed the first performances of the Petersfield Operatic Society, and in 1928 the Corn Exchange was converted for retail use.

Other members of the family also lived in large houses in the town.

The rebuilding took nearly twenty years, and the craftsmen tried to put only the best and finest materials back into Manchester's chief house of God. 192 new traceried panels were fitted to

Springs bubble up through the underlying sandstone, just as they do at Spring Grove House (now the Safari and Leisure Park).

In the basement of the house on the left of the picture, William Rootes had a bicycle repair shop, the forerunner of the Rootes Motor Group. Central Kent

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Paull's lighthouse, directly at the end of the path, was built in 1836 and is now a private house. The 74-gun wooden warship Anson was built here in 1816.