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The first school in Redditch was built in 1820 on land donated by a local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, at the junction of Unicorn Hill and Bates Hill.

The first Welwyn Stores was founded in 1921 at Guessens road, but it closed in July 1939 when the new, larger stores was opened in the centre of the new town.

Down the lane which passes behind it and leads to the right is the pond in which, in Cider with Rosie, the body of the unfortunate Miss Flynn was discovered floating.

By-laws forbade the beating of carpets and driving of cattle through the gardens. The glass-houses on the right produced flowers for town events.

For years two small steam packets provided a daily scheduled service between Gloucester and Sharpness, calling at a number of villages and convenient stopping-places along the way.

The village is the gateway to Bradgate Park, a very large medieval deer park, which was donated to the people of Leicester for recreation in 1928.

This photograph shows the wide expanse of Westgate, a street typical of the old market towns in the area: there was room for animals being driven to market, market stalls, and all the people who came into

This ornamental fountain was provided in 1896 by Joseph Pease, one of the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, and it was traditionally surrounded by beautiful flower beds.

Built by the Wharton family of Skelton Castle for ease of access across Saltburn Glen, the toll bridge was completed in 1869. It stood 120ft high at the centre.

In 1942 Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Beattie, the son of the Rector of Madley, was awarded the Victoria Cross after his ship rammed the dock gates at St Nazaire.

The limestone village of Conistone in Wharfedale is more correctly known as Conistone-with-Kilnsey, with its twin hamlet sheltering under the impressive overhang of Kilnsey Crag across the river.

On the left are the flower-bedecked premises of the seed merchants and nurserymen Kent & Brydon.

On 28 September 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, landed here and occupied the long-abandoned Roman for- tress, which then occupied a promontory overlooking open sea.

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

The parish register for 1583 records the loss of a Wells ship coming from Spain on the west coast of England.

The course, one of many within Greater London, occupies a stretch of land extending south from Frith Manor to the Dollis Brook.

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

Taken from near the Wells Road above the south bank of the River Avon, this is an archive view, for much was destroyed in the Baedeker and other bombing raids during World War II.

Closer in to the centre of the city, this view from the roof of the Abbey looks north along the High Street with the domed Georgian Guildhall on the right.

The thatched cottage in the foreground has a distinctly Dutch look to it - hardly surprising, given that an army of Dutchmen under Cornelius Vermuyden was responsible for draining the Fens in the 17th

At the end of the street is Kimbolton Castle, first built around 1200, later a Tudor house and the place where Katherine of Aragon died in 1536.

The main port lay north of this point, since a medieval three- arched stone bridge blocked the further passage of tall craft upstream along the River Parrett; even in the early 20th century,

Although the window might be Spartan, no shortage of signs advertise the shop's presence.