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When he died in 1914, The Times wrote that he was 'one of the best known and best loved figures among the country gentlemen of Hampshire'.

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester, and to the west of the busy A6.

The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

In the1920s Jesse Boot, founder of Boots the chemists, gave land to the west of Lenton, and University College moved here out of the city centre.

The trees and gate piers on the right have been replaced by a 1960s close of old people's bungalows, named St Andrew's Walk.

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

Protected from overwhelming traffic by the encirclement of the Upton by-pass to the west and the M53 motorway to the east, Upton has changed little since these views were taken.

The Bookhams and Fetcham retain old cores amid the great suburban expansion which occurred after World War II; they are in effect western suburbs of Leatherhead across the River Mole.

This town was almost completely formed and defined by the production of coal.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

Hickson (later the TV Miss Marple) and Jack Hawkins.

Visible evidence of medieval Sultan is sparse, but remnants of the castle motte survive to the west of the parish church.

Opposite the Cathedral's west door was a jeweller's shop displaying the City Time Ball.

The second section of this chapter starts to the west of the city in Stapleford, close to the Derbyshire border, which follows the River Erewash southwards to the River Trent.

The Gothic west front with a Decorated-style window and the gable tower were added in 1891 in white brick, almost masking the earlier red-brick 'preaching-box' behind.

On the level ground to the south-west of the town stands the almost ploughed-out remains of an ancient double-ditched camp called The Aubreys.

Run by Victor Lock and his son, with telephone number Bere Regis 1, this was the post office from 1927 till 1973, when it moved to West Street.

The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

East side or west side? Twins or not? After the Whitby Gazette was kind enough to publish their picture, we received help from several sources.