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Their headquarters, ironically, were in the same Middle Row house where the first cholera victims had died.

The new building curves around Ashley House and the Assembly Rooms without overwhelming them, and it incorporates the earlier development at Kings Shade Walk.

Industry at Nash Mills has now disappeared to become a new housing development.

(Martin Andrew) Built for the furniture manufacturer Walter Birch in 1900, this fine brick house had its windows broken in 1913 by striking chair workers.

High house prices do not make it easy to recruit nurses. South-east expansion will certainly put pressure on the M1, and on local roads like the A505 and the rat run through Houghton Regis.

A large manor house was built within the remains of the old castle in 1541, incorporating some of the original curtain wall, the gatehouse and the great tower.

Between Roman Road and Roman Court lies the site of a Roman bath house, but the most tangible reminder of the Roman presence in this area is the fort which stands in the middle of the New Kilpatrick

Outside the town wall, many streets were laid out principally to provide lodging houses for the many visitors who came to the town once Tenby became part of the wider rail network.

High house prices do not make it easy to recruit nurses. South-east expansion will certainly put pressure on the M1, and on local roads like the A505 and the rat run through Houghton Regis.

Of course, private parties and firework displays lit up the sky for an hour or two, but within the town itself the event was marked solely by a countdown clock in the Market Square.

In 1865, he had obtained the half-acre freehold of the former windmill site, which is probably the highest geographical point in the immediate area, and built his house there.

Alderley Park itself, where the house itself had largely burned down in 1932, was bought by ICI after the war. They set up their

Before sailing on his ill-fated voyage to the Arctic in 1842, Sir John Franklin visited some of his Lincolnshire relatives; it is believed that one of the last houses he stayed in was 120 High

church of St John in the Wilderness, a haven of peace and tranquillity for all who seek a break from the excitements of the bustling resort of Exmouth; and nearer to the estuary is the strange house

He later built Burghley House just south of Stamford.

However, even though the Privy Council requested that the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strand should investigate the need for a light, nothing was formally activated until the latter

Some photographs show areas open where now there is housing, but the decline in Richmond as a shopping centre is particularly evident.

Begun with a spa and bath house in the 18th century, the holiday trade in the town grew apace from the mid-19th century, when the resort was to become the first Norfolk coastal town to obtain a

The centre for this was a site of many acres behind the houses on Marine Terrace facing the golden sands. In 150 years it has just had two names, the Hall by the Sea and Dreamland.

By the First World War it seemed rather absurd to employ a man, a horse and 'a wooden house on wheels' to splash about in some three feet of water (see 19869).

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee but when the new church was consecrated in South Parade the old building found use as the public library, until the new Sutton Coldfield Lending Library (also housing

Berkhamsted had been governed by the Berkhamsted Urban District Council and the Berkhamsted Rural District Council; the former was based in the Civic Centre, opened in 1938, and the latter in Boxwell House

Some photographs show areas open where now there is housing, but the decline in Richmond as a shopping centre is particularly evident.

After ten years of neglect the Paines' brewery site has been redeveloped in a mixed housing and business scheme. This began in 1998 and was completed in 2001.