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Meanwhile down in the town, away from the lush gardens and villas of Amersham Hill, the furniture industry was modernising into the factory system.

Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street

Sheffield in the Victorian period also saw a very large expansion of its housing stock not only to house the rapidly growing number of workers in the light and heavy steel industries but also to

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

Bedford truck designs became the basis for a new breed of army vehicles; the QL made history as the company's first 4 x 4.

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

It has been a pleasure to select these wonderful images from the Frith archives to relate some of the story of the Norfolk coast.

When the Second World War broke out she was exempt from military service because she worked in a bank, taking the place of men who had enlisted.

In 1982 he surfaced again, unearthed by construction workers digging foundations for the new city of Milton Keynes. When the Icthyosaurus was found, it still had 75% of its skeleton.

Over a large part of the area, modern toilets were unknown; cesspits and earth closets were common. Such rural conditions could be quite enjoyable in the dry, summer months.

There is but sparse evidence of Anglo- Saxon life in the city area.

Tourism in the area has, rightly, not been encouraged; the balance of nature is too fragile. To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

Tourism in the area has, rightly, not been encouraged; the balance of nature is too fragile. To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

Over the years there have been a variety of spellings of the name Hemel Hempstead.

of the 20th century.

When Lord Ashley married Harriet Chichester, the only surviving child and heiress of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, his father may have made it plain that if he was to become an Irish landlord he would

It was demolished in the late 1920s, and the municipal swimming baths were built on the site in the 1930s. King Street was widened in 1928 when the old Town Hall was demolished.

The 200-foot Royal Victoria Pier (left) was built out from Castle Hill at Butlers Horse, and was erected to coincide with Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.

he lost mansion of Deepdene, owned by Lord Francis Hope, once stood near the busy A24. The Howard family first owned the estate as far back as the middle of the 17th century.

he lost mansion of Deepdene, owned by Lord Francis Hope, once stood near the busy A24. The Howard family first owned the estate as far back as the middle of the 17th century.

From the hill behind the town there is a splendid view of the German ocean.' This was how Morris & Co's Directory viewed Aldeburgh in 1868.

Those still trading are the Surrey Yeoman (see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the

Most of the land around Pitsea, Dunton and Langdon Hills had originally been farmland; the crops were mainly barley, oats, wheat, peas, beans, and clover.