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Tea rooms and public houses, like the Three Horse Shoes (left), have always been a necessity in the village - when the estate was being investigated for purchase by the First Garden City company, Norton

The withdrawal of shopping from the village is not a recent phenomenon; in fact, it began prior to the First World War, when the shops on the western slope became houses, leaving only their large windows

Landmarks ancient and modern, still familiar to us today, cluster on the right of the picture. These include St John's Church, Howell's store and the Cottage public house.

It takes its name from having housed a bookshop, which traded as the Marine Circulating Library in 1840. The architect and artist Arnold Mitchell retired here.

Since 1891, Mr Hillary has sold his jeweller's shop to Mr Boothroyd (centre right), and the house next to the Buck Hotel, has been replaced with a shop front and the arrival in the town of

Here we see the old lifeboat house on Formby Beach, looking isolated and abandoned, as it was at this time.

Designed in Grecian style and proportions by Sir Charles Barry, who also designed the Houses of Parliament, it was built as a home for the Royal Institution of Manchester.

In the High Street several very high quality brick-fronted houses were erected with fashionable sash windows, modillioned cornices and parapets.

Gordon Bottomley, poet and playwright, was born in 1874 in the Dutch-style house on the right.

The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers. There was a bandstand on the green, an outdoor and indoor skating rink, three cinemas and a stage for Pierrots.

In the small hours of Sunday 16 February 1941, the church was seriously damaged in an air-raid; services had to be held in the Sunday School for some time afterwards.

Picturesquely perched on top of its steep knoll and surrounded by a sea of 20th- century housing, the church of St Nicholas, Laindon, possibly dates from the 12th century.

The female staff lived inside the house in the background, Southfield, while the patients were accommodated in a collection of eight wooden huts to the left.

In 1494, Henry VII decided to adapt the chapel of Henry II and Edward II as his tomb-house. Master mason Henry Janyns and the original designer William Vertue took on the work in 1478 and 1484.

The early 16th-century Queen's Armes is described by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as 'an unusually complete example of a small late medieval house'.

Some of the Crag houses can be seen behind. The big building by the harbour is Slaters, who exported many cargoes of lime at that time.

In fact the earliest use of the name was only in 1791 and the place is now considered to have begun merely as the house of a wealthy local merchant.

The house and its contents, including the photographs of prominent Socialist leaders (on the mantelpiece, left), were bequeathed to the National Trust; they, and the annual Midsummer Art Festival, attract

The row of houses stretching up to the Antrim Road has the name Jubilee Terrace, celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

A monument near the south porch in the churchyard has a simple inscribed slab of 1930 to Christopher Wood, the painter who lived in nearby Reddish House, which has since been the home of Cecil

The estate was sold, not to Manchester Council as expected, but to a property speculator called E T Hooley, who brought in the General Manager of the Ship Canal to develop the park into a sport and housing

By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks. By 1880 water was being piped from Grizedale reservoir, and a new railway station was ready in the same year.

School commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, an eminent Victorian architect, most famous for designing the Natural History Museum in London, to design the new Grammar School buildings and the headmaster's house

The actors stayed at Peak Farm and Corby House during their twelve weeks of summer shooting on location. All the film stock was stored in the stables at the hotel.