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A boy from the school, Astley, claimed that Mr Rowell, a grocer, had supplied him with gunpowder for a cork gun. Rowell denied this, and Astley was flogged as a liar.

The octagonal Jacobean font is decorated with the arms of Scotland, Ireland, Maidstone and the Astley family, who were granted the former Archbishop's Palace in Elizabethan times.

The English Civil War ended at Stow-on-the-Wold when the parliamentarian Sir William Brereton defeated the aged royalist Sir Jacob Astley in 1646.

These buildings are in complete contrast to the home of Lord Hasting; the Hall has been a seat of the Astleys for centuries.

The Bailiwick tactfully elected Sir Astley Paston Cooper as the first Mayor of the newly formed Borough, and a great civic celebration was planned with Sir Astley opening Gadebridge Park to the

This Italianate mansion was built c1860 for Mr Eley, the cartridge manufacturer, and was known locally as 'Eley Cathedral'. It was here that the German Empress stayed in 1891.

Built to an original design by Sir Christopher Wren, it is believed that Aspley House's chequered history includes a spell as an outpost of the work of the Special Operations Executive during World War

These 18th-century properties are undoubtedly some that were part of the benefit bestowed by the Moore family in Aspley.

A motor car rattles along Ashley Road. In those days the nearest AA recommended hotel was the Unicorn at Altrincham, a fourteen-bed establishment with garaging for two automobiles.

Ten years later, the designer Laura Ashley opened a mill in the village to mark the start of what has become a fashion empire still in business throughout Britain today.

The soldier is in his best uniform and is probably on his way to the drill hall in Ashley Road, depot for A and B companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.

Ashley no longer lets 'Boats by the Week, Month or Season', nor are they 'Housed and Varnished'. This view is from The Swan pub, still in existence.

When Lord Ashley married Harriet Chichester, the only surviving child and heiress of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, his father may have made it plain that if he was to become an Irish landlord he would

Prussian-born George Muller arrived in Bristol in 1833 and three years later started building five orphanages on this site at Ashley Down. This is the third.

the High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, the Spread Eagle, prominent on the corner of Ashley

The business must have recently changed hands, because in the 1906 directory it was the premises of Charles Riley, and Kennerley's shop was at 112 and 114 Ashley Road.

The red brick Ashley House, with the large white gable (centre), was built for Joseph Simpson in 1875; due to its cost, it was known as Simpson's Folly.

The best part of Thames Ditton architecturally is north and west of this viewpoint, which shows the post office at the High Street's junction with Ashley Road.

It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home. Its battlemented tower and Arts and Crafts- influenced design makes it one of the better convalescent homes architecturally.

at High Street and Waterloo Road gives a clear impression of the original narrowness of the eastern section of the thoroughfare, with the old coaching inn, The Spread Eagle, prominent on the corner of Ashley

These opposing views of the town centre illustrate the character and quality of life in Aspley Guise.

On the left all the buildings are timber-framed, although several have later brick frontages: for example the grocer's shop, now Gavin Ashley's, is dated 1835.

A private committee was hastily formed and at last, in 1922, the memorial was built fronting Ashley Road at the corner of the cemetery. The names of the 256 fallen were added the next year.

Lester Bowden died in 1980, leaving his sons Richard and Warwick in charge of the rebuilding programme occasioned by the Ashley Centre.