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Her 230,000-strong force was expected to win another glorious victory - wives and children came along to celebrate.

James Ainsworth was a master mariner like his father before him, and James Wright came here to work for the Great Northern Railway which itself expanded to meet the needs of the dock.

New town planners distrusted the earlier, casual dispersal of houses and manufacturers along the same street, deciding that in future there would be zoning, with different areas of the town set

Hundreds of locals came to see it, and 'tarmacadam' became a huge success.

Milford then turned to oil again, but this time a different kind of oil, and four oil refineries came into production from the 1950s, making Milford the second largest oil refining port in Europe in the

After Willand & Robinson moved to Rugby in 1911, Auto Carriers (makers of the AC cars of later fame) occupied the buildings.

Wood Green Farm still cultivates acres of pasture on the north bank of the Severn as far as Burlish Top, but changes came about after World War II.

Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558. Her stays in Enfield were in 1564, 1568, 1572 and 1587.

In the summer the first protest came from a house next door, because young nurses were sitting on an adjoining bench with babies who cried.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

Situated away from major routes, the town has derived its fame from the Battle of 1485, when Henry Tudor, later Henry VII, defeated Richard III on Ambion Hill to its south.

The name Granny's Bay came later, and Commonside fishermen used Granny's Dock.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

In the early 1900s the road was widened and the market house and several buildings in the same row were built to the designs of W J Tamlyn.

J N Kellet was next door, and then came the White Bull Hotel, facing the Black Bull; in 1823, when the licence was renewed, no cock fighting or bull and bear baiting was allowed to take place in the square

They felt a need to fill 'The Surrey wilderness', an area of under-representation for Methodism, and significant funding came from a fund set up by Hugh Price Hughes: unfortunately, he died before

Predictably, the planners came up with a scheme for knocking down most of Church Street and replacing it with flats (the proposed scheme would also have included demolishing the Queen's Head and

Consequently, the police only came to Loughborough eight years after most of the rest of Leicestershire.

other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal house- hold came

Then at the end of the 19th century there came a period of great change for south-east Essex.

This old Basildon road name came from the soft, sticky London clay to which the road reverted whenever it rained.

The Duke of Wellington came to partake, and recommended the water to his officers. Cheltenham's future was assured.

At the same time a wealthy shipper died, and his widow asked for a church to be built in his memory.

The Duke of Wellington came to partake, and recommended the water to his officers. Cheltenham's future was assured.