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It is hard to believe that the main York to Beverley Road passes around the pond on the left. The village was built around the Manor House, later surrendered to Henry VIII after the dissolution.

Thus Glasgow ended up with four railway termini but not a single through line, and to this day passengers have to walk or take a shuttle bus between Central and Queen Street.

On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society. Every customer had a membership number against which all transactions were logged.

The church is a short distance from the Nower, another one of Dorking's parkland areas.

His task was overwhelming, for most of the Island was in league with the smugglers to one degree or another.

On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society. Every customer had a membership number against which all transactions were logged.

These chapels are normally constructed at the eastern end of cathedrals, and not at the west.

Laid down at Plymouth Dockyard as HMS 'London' in 1819, her name was changed during her somewhat slow construction; she was not launched until July 1828.

We are looking north-westwards up Bell Street from the Assembly Rooms. Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

She led an army of charioteers to sack Colchester, London and St Albans before heading north through Milton Keynes city area along the high streets of Fenny and Stony Stratford.

By the time of this photograph Cromer had experienced a continuing building boom, which included new premises for fashionable stores such as Jarrold & Sons (left), who are still flourishing both in Cromer

Here we see King Street before the Post Office moved to the High Street in 1919.

Many of the shops on both right and left had only recently been, or were yet to be, converted from private dwelling houses.

Inns and beer houses served the needs of travellers and waggon drivers - the Chequers stands on the left and the George and Dragon faces us in the distance.

On the extreme right is Kemplah House, a private preparatory school run by Miss MacDonald and originally the residence of Mr Clarke.

Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,

'Church' is a Northumbrian word and 'Kirk' is Mercian; both words mean 'a place of worship'.

During the Civil War, Newnham, like many Royalist garrisons surrounding Gloucester, was on the receiving end of a raid mounted by Colonel Edward Massey's forces.

The Corporation's policy of providing a sufficient number of public parks and recreation grounds for both residents and visitors was actively pursued during this period of expansion.

Victorian iron screens are on the west, north and south of the chancel.

supplied 500 police batons; later it became Oxley's Mineral Water factory, and in 1943 even produced Coca Cola for American troops stationed nearby; during the war German prisoners were quartered here, and another

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

It became the gatehouse to the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury during the 14th century. It is now used as the tourist information centre.

By 1937 the town was being promoted as both a summer and winter resort, and hotels now occupied much of the sea front and the area behind it.