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She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes.

This view looks south down the main street towards the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas - we can see its 14th-century crossing tower (centre).

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

As the town grew, Digbeth stretched from the High Street down to a small open stream running through the valley bottom.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

This is now an extremely busy road, and there is a host of traffic lights where five roads meet at the bottom of Lindum Hill, just about where the car is coming down the road.

gained a reputation for sorcery and evil deeds.Those who know the area treat these superstitious tales with a pinch of salt, but they do not deny that the quick changes in weather, which bring down

There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

For most of the century there had been daily steamers from Belfast to Bangor, and as the holiday traffic increased the County Down Railway took over the service.

The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.

In their place emerged Exchange Buildings, the town's first block of shops. However, by 1881 traders were complaining that Commercial Street was in a disgusting state.

Some of the two hundred navvies engaged in building the Portsmouth Railway line were drinking here late one evening, when Donaldson attempted to enforce closing time, and was struck down by a blow from

North Street joins High Street by Lloyds Bank, and it is down here on the left that we find the last Daventry Grammar School building.

This building replaced a fine Gothic-style mansion which was burnt down before its completion in 1829.

Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.

A hundred years after this photograph was taken, there appears to have been little change to the overall shape of the town, for Ilkley today retains the charm of the Wharfe Valley and the splendour of

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

The camera looks at the mundane, suburban face of the village as Woodgate drops down to Cross Green.

Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about

The brewery chimney came down in 1959, and the remaining building became the site of the bus station. On the outskirts of the town was the Naval Training Ship HMS 'Cabot'.