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To the right of the column in the background is Commutation Row, which was built and named to celebrate the repeal of the window tax. Sad to say, it is now all cleared away for a modern building.

The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.

If he happened to be on leave in wartime, Peter took the nurses across by rowing boat or by shire horse and cart, together with a churn of fresh milk!

Whilst a Jaguar 2½ litre heads a row of cars in 1955, only a little boy with a pram uses the road in 1898.

It is identical to Club Row in Longridge, which only came about through the tenacity of twenty Lancashire quarry workers who saved up and built the terrace.

Today, all that remains of the Plume of Feathers is the stableyard, now used as garages, which can be seen from Tythings Court.

Henley had latched on to the newly-fashionable sport of rowing; this preceded the later Victorian boom, which also enthused the lower middle classes with their increased leisure and spending money

He also built a village school, the parish church, the vicarage and the row of terraced cottages in Church Street.

This scheme caused dismay beyond the confines of the town, in a row reminiscent of the one in 2005 over plans to knock down Victorian housing in Liverpool and replace it with modern housing stock

A few offices would have telephones - but all would need their fireplaces, as the rows of chimney-pots show.

By 1894 the two smaller lodging houses, inappropriately named Great Terrace (right on above photograph), had been constructed at the southern end of Bedford Row.

This similar view of the village gives a closer impression of the mission house and the row of managers' houses (right).

Two of the responds have a very elementary row of flat leaves. The arcades of the short Norman church were continued east by two standard Decorated bays, but no chancel arch.

Their headquarters, ironically, were in the same Middle Row house where the first cholera victims had died.

In The Square in front of the church there is a row of almshouses founded in 1693 by Thomas Newcombe, printer to Charles II, James II and William III. These were rebuilt in 1818.

in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.

Until 'mixed bathing' was allowed by the Council around 1906/8, the separate rows of bathing machines for the sexes had to be kept apart by a space of 50 yards.

In 2003, a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane

In 2003, a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane

Today, it is hard to understand why people would choose to work such long hours in often terrible conditions, but with the national population growing, unskilled factory work seemed to offer the

Few of these burgage plots survived the 20th century, but until 1900 on the south side of Paul's Row, the High Street, and Easton Street the burgage plots ran down to the banks of the River Wye

These are now the Century and Wyfold Galleries, but for years they were the premises of Shepherd and Dee, boat builders.

…Cornfields were seen where the Fairdene Estate now rises whilst High Street, Coulsdon [Brighton Road] did not exist.

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.This must have been