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In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

The school was run on the 'group' system (unusual then, and very advanced for the time): the children lived in groups and learnt how to look after one another like a large family.

A temporary concert stand was built in front of the bandstand in 1942, and over 80 attractions were held in the park during 1943, including concerts by both local and well-known bands and orchestras

Following the death of William ap Thomas in 1445, the castle passed into the hands of his eldest son, another William, who took the surname Herbert.

To the right of this pathway is another which leads to the site of the postern gate, which was part of the early 11th- and 12th-century defences of Malmesbury.

The wharf tells of another watery enterprise.

When Frith's photographer went to Belfast it was not his intention to record its industries, but he knew he had to take note of the fame of the fabric known world-wide as Irish Linen.

The building with the tower, in the top left corner, is 'V' Block, and it housed Styling, Design, Prototype Build, and running shop for both cars and trucks; it was known within the company as 'Experimental

Generations of farmers have grazed and tilled the ground, but much more gently than in many parts of England, using methods not so different from those used by their distant ancestors.

The Second World War had been over for about ten years, and better times were on the way - and so there were traffic direction signs and advertisements for travellers.

There has probably been a place of worship here since Saxon times, but it was not until the 13th century that St Andrew's became Rugby's parish church.

When the Eagle and Child closed as an inn, it occasioned another change in Alderley life. For centuries, the Alderley Wakes had been held there beside the churchyard.

On the corner stands the Bull's Head public house. Until just a few years ago the abattoir had its premises behind the pub, and here cattle were slaughtered on a regular basis.

Another is the Sergison Arms/Dolphin pub that was mentioned in 1599, as well as several times in the preceding chapters of this book!

By now, the High Street was crammed with houses: all the plots had been filled.

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

As the population of Fareham increased during the 1820s and 1830s, there was a need for more schools, another church, a new workhouse, and a library and lecture hall.

This rural hinterland is both beautiful and mysterious, filled with history and crammed with legend.

Lying side-by-side are Miss Edith Mary Corderoy and Mr Thomas E Powell, who together started the Dorking British School (now the Powell Corderoy School) in the late 1890s.

Unfortunately the tiny saddleback tower of the old church was now seriously out of proportion to the new, larger church.

By midnight, the drunken and rowdy attackers had assembled on the corner of Green Close Lane, making no attempt at stealth.

As part of providing civic local facilities, the council erected a large open- air swimming pool in the town centre in the 1930s on the site of Richmond House, between King Street and the river

We are looking from just inside Birmingham Road up Castle Hill, with Tipton Road off to the right. On the extreme left is the Station Garage, then an Austin dealership.

Today there are 34 listed buildings in the Basildon area, including the raised pool with Mother and Child Statue and Brooke House in the Town Square; both of these are listed Grade II.