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The reason for the name is that the front part of the inn is the new part - it was added onto the existing part in the 18th century.

The last survivors of the colony were burnt or massacred in the Temple of Claudius.

Henbury was not a parish until 1845; before then it was part of Prestbury, so St Thomas` Church and its parsonage date from this time.

Only small changes in 70 years, the Railway Hotel at the far end of the street is now the Whistle Stop.

It was considered a magical stone where barren women would press their breast against the stone in hope of a child!

This well-known inn is situated in a peaceful corner of the New Forest, close to Cadnam.

By the time this photograph was taken, the buildings either side of Bargate had been demolished to allow traffic to pass freely round each side of it.

During Ethelred the Unready's reign, Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire became what was in effect an independent land, ruled by the Earls of Mercia, free from royal control.

All kinds of shipments left for destinations all over the world, with cargoes from copper ore and coal to potatoes and onions.

Being on the far side of the Lancaster Canal from the centre, the school was considered to be out in the country, and the air was good for the boys.

This is one of Lancaster's main shopping streets. Note the radio shop on the right—in country districts, the radio, with its BBC Home and Light programmes, helped people to keep in touch.

Here locals could spend their money on furniture, boots and shoes, children's clothes, and ladies' and gents' outfitting. This picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns.

This interior view of the church shows the 15th- century nave arcades and chancel arch; the ghost of the original roof line can be seen high above the chancel arch.

A mile south of Nutfield, a new village grew up around the railway station on the Tonbridge line named South Nutfield.

The summer exodus of holidaymakers to the seaside resorts of Britain made piers a popular and lucrative venture. This Victoria Pier has had a chequered history.

There was no official place of worship for Catholics until the 1730s, and even then it was only created out of necessity.

By the banks of the Dee. Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.

Amble was little more than a hamlet until the construction of Warkworth Harbour in the late 1830s.

Situated on one of the main crossing points of the Tyne, Corbridge was occupied by the Scots in 1138 and burnt by them on at least three occasions; by William Wallace in 1296; by the Bruce in 1312;

It is a quiet morning in this pleasant small town, situated on a gentle hill a few miles west of Sevenoaks.

One clear change in this photograph from previous views is the loss of the ornate iron railings around the whole area. They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions.

This is recalled in the name of The Hundred Stationers. This square was once busy with the sounds and smells of a cattle market, but now it has been marked out for parking.

There has been an inn on this site since the 12th century; it was originally a cider house, part of an orchard. It now has a caravan park and a restaurant.

Here we see an excellent example of glaciations and a remnant of a bygone age. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII ordered a change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.