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connected with Robert Peel through helping him to introduce mechanical processes at Brookside Mill, so it was appropriate that the James Hargreaves memorial should be unveiled in July 1952 by Earl Peel of

The school was founded in 1859 by the trustees of Thomas Howell, a cloth merchant, who left a legacy of 12,000 gold ducats for the 'education of orphaned Welsh maidens'.

The ruins include a large shell keep within a rectangular ward, a twin-towered gatehouse, a large D-shaped tower, and traces of a hall.

This beautiful view, seen from the path up the hill towards Miles Cross, looks north to the Manor House (top left) and its thatched 17th-century barn (right of centre).

Little survives to the left of The Carlton Printing Works, nowadays Threshers wine merchants, and the shop-blinded two-storey building at the far left.

Coronation Gardens commemorate the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II. The flower beds are a riot of colour in high summer; they lie alongside the stream that runs through the main street.

In the centre of this aerial photograph is an area known as Harvey town after a previous owner of the land. In the late 1950s all this area was cleared to build a multi-storey car park.

In early days the hub of the community was the church, but later, as we see here, it was the neighbourhood recreation ground.

The street follows the course of the Roman road Ermine Street, and is typically without any sign of a bend.

Here we see Park Street in the days of horse-drawn transport. Half-way up the street is what appears to be a water-cart on damping-down duty.

On the right hand side, several businesses, including Pedley & White outfitters, occupy the Church House building, erected in the 1530s on the site of old tenements.

The Town Hall, opened in 1960 by Clement Attlee, is part of a group of buildings in the Civic Centre. The sculpture is 'Bronze Cross', by Henry Moore.

The summer of 1914 was long and hot; the hottest day of the year in Lancashire was 28 June.

Behind and to the right is the turreted tower of the parish church. Built in 1851, it replaced the original church dating from the reign of Richard III.

This school, on Stanedge Road, still exists today. The only real change has been the construction of the headmaster's house to the right hand side of this view.

The magnificent sweeping curve of the station at York, the railway city of the north. During excavations beneath the platforms, human remains from the Roman period were found.

Another view of Derwent Terrace and the Promenade. This shows the Jubilee Bridge crossing the Derwent - the bridge was erected to mark the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign.

The old fort seen on the headland of Castle Point was completed in 1781 and boasted eight cannons, each capable of firing a nine or twelve- pound shot.

This used to be the most genteel of the Yorkshire seaside resorts, a view that is exemplified by the promenading of the nouveau riche in this 1920s photograph.

The clock tower was built in 1887 to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It was built of red brick and locally-made white bricks called 'Warboys whites'.

Here we see another view of the long, straggling street with its delightful half-timbered cottages and the brick Baptist Chapel on the opposite side of the road.

Heading south towards Bourne, the route diverts north-east of the town to Edenham, a delightful village on the east bank of the winding East Glen River, whose church has many remarkable monuments to the

This view and 61432 on page 36 presage the changes to come in the 20th century.

Lying east of Pocklington, this village was bought in the 18th century by the 5th Duke of Devonshire. He sold it in 1845 to the railway entrepreneur George Hudson.