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Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister. Ludwell Grange, built in 1540, is a fine half-timbered house.

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank. This has since been converted to a pub called 'The Old Bank'.

It was demolished by Mowlem and Company in 1866 and shipped to Swanage by George Burt who presented it to fellow contractor Thomas Docwra who had just bought the Grove Estate.

The grounds around it were transformed into fantastic gardens with temples, pleasure walks, lakes with islands and fountains, a maze, a grotto, groves and lawns.

Further lakes and streams flow through the grounds of The Grove, which was once a private house, but is now a delightful public park.

Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town (Nick Thomas) A view of St Mary's Grove, opposite the Church.

St Joseph's Catholic Church, designed by Frederick Arthur Walters, was erected in 1895 in Falkland Grove, off Coldharbour Lane.

The grounds around it were transformed into fantastic gardens with temples, pleasure walks, lakes with islands and fountains, a maze, a grotto, groves and lawns.

The public infirmary, with just twelve beds, was established in 1752 in a house in Withy Grove, but was replaced by a 80-bed hospital in Piccadilly in 1755, where it remained for over 150 years.

The boys, both day pupils and boarders, worshipped in the Roman Catholic Church in Victoria Grove. The nuns would not allow boys to use their names and instead gave each a number.

Close to the cottages at Grove End, the beautifully maintained maze commemorates the restoration of King Charles II to the throne.

Brought from London, it marked the north- eastern corner of contractor Thomas Docwra's Grove House estate.

The boys, both day pupils and boarders, worshipped in the Roman Catholic Church in Victoria Grove. The nuns would not allow boys to use their names and instead gave each a number.

From the Cow and Calf rocks, top left, down past the Ben Rhydding Hydro, and then along the Grove with the Spa Hydro, Ilkley must have been a breathtaking experience for turn of the century visitors, who

To the left, the building with two flags on top was a working dairy, the Manchester Creamery, and cows were taken in the morning and at teatime from fields off Seymour Grove to be hand milked for the public

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

The trees, originally part of the manorial ash grove, are now mainly oaks.

Just west of Liptons (left), the 13th-century Grope Lane became Grove Lane in 1840, and is now Union Street. The library was built here in 1968, winning a Civic Trust Award.

Their old, moated manor house became a farm; a few cottages and a blacksmith's shop remained around the junction of Horton Lane and Long Grove Road with a more substantial building at West Park farmhouse

Brian Coombs, who drove delivery lorries in the 1960s and 70s, remembers making several runs to Windsor Castle to deliver sausages and bacon.

It was the damp climate here which probably drove the Romans away.

It has four patent sails and a fantail, and drove a turbine pump. Owned by the National Trust, it is conserved in complete but non-working condition, and is open to visitors.

It was the damp climate here which probably drove the Romans away.