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We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

The year this picture was taken a cruel winter was about to strike, leaving many new owners of a motor car relying on horses to pull them free from snow-laden roads.

If we walk along Cluntergate towards the town centre past John Carr's birthplace in the tidy cottage built by his father in 1739, we see the Cricketers Arms pub (1898) on the left.

The Green Bridge, named because of its proximity to the Green, was built 1788-89 to a design by the North Riding bridgemaster, York architect John Carr, after its medieval predecessor

Rockingham commissioned the building of the grandstand in 1778; it was a copy of John Carr's original stand at the York Knavesmire course. A new grandstand opened in 1970.

Not far from the cafe is the four-arch sandstone bridge over the Derwent, built in 1775 by York architect John Carr.

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Many of the thatched cottages on the winding lanes remained the same except for the replacement of their wheat straw roofs by corrugated metal sheets; an instance is the old Reading Room between Carr's

Jean Carre, one of the last of the French glassmakers to work in these parts, is said to be buried in Alfold churchyard.

After a fire in 1734 it was rebuilt by John Carr in a fine Georgian style. The stone came from a quarry on the estate's land.

It is hard to believe that the arched bridge, built in 1797 by John Carr of York, used to carry all the main Great North road traffic.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York’s Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle’s Gothic architecture.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

Over to the right up Carr Lane is the parish church of St John the Baptist.

After a fire in 1734 it was rebuilt by John Carr in fine Georgian style. The stone came from a quarry on the estate's land.

Cluntergate is one of the main roads leading out from the centre of Horbury, whose main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of the famous 18th-century architect always, but erroneously, known as 'John Carr

Rockingham commissioned the building of the grandstand in 1778; it was a copy of John Carr's original stand at the York Knavesmire course. A new grandstand opened in 1970.

The Carrs are part of the meadow land along the River Bollin that once provided pasture land for Wilmslow`s residents.

Local girls worked at the model dairy and cows grazed on Carrs Green, once common land.

The bridge over the Ure was widened by John Carr in 1785.

He commissioned the designs from the fashionable architect of the time, John Carr of York.

We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

It was the birthplace of the architect John Carr, who started his training in his father's quarry.