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During the 1930s two additional bowling greens were laid out at separate locations within the borough, one at Marine Gardens in 1930 (see W147157) and one at Church House Grounds in 1937.

So, they had to build attractive housing within easy walking distance of work, and provide shops and places of worship.

It was classed as a hotel and lodging house in 1856, and is now an indoor market. The Royal Café (extreme left) is now the Café Royale.

for Prince Charles Edward, though it has been said that the core of this army was made up of clans hoping more to settle old scores with Argyll and the Campbells than worry too much about restoring the house

On the left in the 1955 view is the Manor House, occupied by Wadsworth, the beer and soft drink bottlers, whilst on the right is the building which used to be the Temperance Hotel.

The raised area to the left of the church houses the Jackson vault, the resting place of the forebears of the late Adrian Ward Jackson, well known through his friendship with the late Diana, Princess

Eventually, from November 1953 open cast mining encroached even on the land surrounding Kippax Park, and by 1959 the 300ft-long house was totally demol- ished, leaving the farmland we see today

The elegant flint-fronted house dates from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the now tree-covered motte is beyond it.

indicated that the town seen in the Frith views has much of its earlier framework or skeleton intact, with Georgian and Victorian facades jostling with or concealing Tudor or earlier timber- framed houses

In 1845, when the houses were being completed, the square was their private garden, and as the people moved in they got a key.

The scene has changed much since the days of Richard Ansdell RA, when he ordered his house Starr Hills to be built, and this was a wild and lonely area of marram grass covered sandhills.

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and she gave some of the money back to pay for the art gallery it was to house.

The Market Square, which here takes a triangular form, is surrounded by modest, attractive, mainly 18th-century houses, apart from the Grammar School, which, to some extent, raises the scale.

The 17th-century screen bears the Royal arms of James I and those of the Fortescue family, lords of the manor, whose 15th-century manor house rose behind the church.

These have included the enlargement of the Tesco store near the bypass, the reconstruction of the road bridge over Hen Brook in St Mary's Street, and a large new housing complex and marina on

This view shows the entrance to the cloisters, now housing the gift shop and cloister restaurant. The letter box beneath the lamp post has gone.

renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced a much older house

hen travelling south from Leatherhead, we pass on our right the fine house in Norbury Park; it is said to be one of the loveliest estates in Surrey.

Further along, the grocer's is an early 18th-century house of 2½ storeys with quoins. There follow more 18th-century buildings where the façades usually conceal much older rem- nants.

Custody facilities were also bad and the 'house of correction' attracted complaints of severe overcrowding. However, it took 20 years before the first police station was built, in Woodgate.

, on the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal house

But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for

The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall. The Sudell family can be traced back to the reign of Edward VI. They owned land in Blackburn and out at Oozebooth.

The tower, with its clock and cupola, marks a market house and assembly rooms, which have a history of their own.