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This cluster of sparse conifers in Ampthill Park borders an entrance to the Cheshire Home for the Disabled that occupies a house built in 1686-88 for the Dowager Countess of Ailesbury and Elgin.

The Shell Mex buildings (BP House) then replaced the bridge at the entrance to the town, but was closed in 1983 due to structural problems and later demolished.

The Shell Mex buildings (BP House) then replaced the bridge at the entrance to the town, but was closed in 1983 due to structural problems and later demolished.

George Savage's draper's shop is by the gates on the right, and next door to him is Allsop's, trading as a cash tailor under the slogan: 'The Novelty House for Neckwear'.

George Savage's draper's shop is by the gates on the right, and next door to him is Allsop's, trading as a cash tailor under the slogan: 'The Novelty House for Neckwear'.

It was classed as a hotel and lodging house in 1856, and is now an indoor market. The Royal Café (extreme left) is now the Café Royale.

Thomas Berry, a yeoman farmer, built this house on the site of an abbey in 1745. In 1833 one of his descendants refaced the stonework, commemorating this with a Latin inscription over the front door.

Among the new developments was Neville's addition of a 94ft-high fermentation house extension to the Castle Street Phoenix brewery in 1957, at a cost of £100,000.

An angel has appeared from a former house in the south chapel; the pulpit is dated 1628, and has blank arches and arabesque decoration; the back panel upper half has caryatids and the tester has strapwork

Holywell developed by the Great Ouse as a traditional `ring` village: the main street runs around the perimeter of the community with only one access road.

Local collectors found themselves £100 short to complete the construction, so they turned to Trinity House, who donated the money on the understanding that the monument could be used as working lighthouse

Within ten years he had six factories and a house in Golden Square. He had also built Penwortham Lodge, fought a local election, and been elected Member of Parliament.

Beneath the building were cells for accommodating prisoners and a space for housing the hand-operated fire engine and ladder that were gifts to the town.

New flats and houses were erected there in the late 1950s.

The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane

During the 1930s two additional bowling greens were laid out at separate locations within the borough, one at Marine Gardens in 1930 (see W147157) and one at Church House Grounds in 1937.

So, they had to build attractive housing within easy walking distance of work, and provide shops and places of worship.

It was classed as a hotel and lodging house in 1856, and is now an indoor market. The Royal Café (extreme left) is now the Café Royale.

for Prince Charles Edward, though it has been said that the core of this army was made up of clans hoping more to settle old scores with Argyll and the Campbells than worry too much about restoring the house

On the left in the 1955 view is the Manor House, occupied by Wadsworth, the beer and soft drink bottlers, whilst on the right is the building which used to be the Temperance Hotel.

The raised area to the left of the church houses the Jackson vault, the resting place of the forebears of the late Adrian Ward Jackson, well known through his friendship with the late Diana, Princess

Eventually, from November 1953 open cast mining encroached even on the land surrounding Kippax Park, and by 1959 the 300ft-long house was totally demol- ished, leaving the farmland we see today

The elegant flint-fronted house dates from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the now tree-covered motte is beyond it.

indicated that the town seen in the Frith views has much of its earlier framework or skeleton intact, with Georgian and Victorian facades jostling with or concealing Tudor or earlier timber- framed houses