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Taking its name from the wife of Edward VII, the park was officially opened on 25 June 1902 – the date scheduled (but not kept) for his coronation.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

Nationally, coupés and tourers outnumbered saloons by about seven to one, and they appear to be doing the same in Southport. The Prince of Wales Hotel was built on Lord Street in 1876.

Inside, Bedford's chief historical treasure is the brass to Sir William Harpur and his wife, Dame Alice. He is in the gown of an Alderman, and he was a Lord Mayor of London.

The Brays came and gave the place its name in 1490. Sir Reginald became Treasurer of England, being involved in building Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey.

In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.

Its name came from Peter Hesketh's uncle, Bold Fleetwood Hesketh. As time went on, Peter, the founder of the town, assumed the additional name of Fleetwood.

In the opposite corner is the village school founded by the gift of £180 from a tailor, James Thistleton.

Overton is situated near the Lune Estuary; it is said that a terrace on the main village street uses stone that came from Cockersand Abbey. Of the abbey, only the chapterhouse remains.

All this came to an end with a disastrous fire, and the site is now a pub garden to the Nag's Head with a children's playground.

Then along came Alderman Richard Cobden. It was he who brought purpose back into Bright's life when he reminded him that hundreds of people were dying of starvation due to the iniquitous Corn Laws.

This is explained by a need to accommodate the hundreds of summer visitors who came to this area, and who needed to attend church on a Sunday.

The stone came from a quarry on the estate's land. The house was divided into three parts in 1919, and is now used as offices by a major building company.

Trade here came from corn milling, spinning and weaving, and paper manufacture. Beck Isle Cottage was once the home of the village laundry maid.

At first they were council houses, and later private developers came in.

The first links with the Raleigh family, from which the village now takes the second part of its name, came in 1346 when Peter de Raleghe owned certain manorial rights.

He came across references to it in a text dated 1125. Excavations outside revealed the walls, and repairs revealed the carvings.

It is famed for a carved pillar featuring entwined ribbands.

In 1860 the house was occupied by George and Elizabeth Torr, and by 1879 it was famed for its gardens and its annual display of azaleas, but in the mid 1920s it was turned into a school for girls.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones. Fortunately, Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame!)

General Shubrick's clock over the door came from the Round House when the Andover Turnpike Trust was wound up.

The tramway from Bradford came here in 1914, but the first road accident happened years earlier in 1900. A 10mph speed limit was imposed in 1903.

Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on the finished