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Just 14 years after this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman Doctor of Medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908

So proclaimed the South Wales Echo in its December 1956 review of the facility. At this time, Wales's most modern teaching hospital could boast 379 beds, with an aim to reach the 1000 mark.

On the right is the Anchor Inn, at this time owned by the brewers Strong & Co of Romsey. It has now been converted into flats and a doctor's surgery.

One local resident of Kettering recalls visiting Woodcock's department store on the corner of Newland Street and Montagu Street as a child in the 1920s and 30s.

The jumble of gables and chimneys on the right of the street represents a 17th-century house; opposite it is the entrance to Chichele College, founded by Archbishop Chichele in 1422.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

East of photograph N251008, Frith's photographer looks along Church Street with the 15th-century tower of St Michael's church on the right. Unusually, its lower stage is open and serves as a porch.

The church of St Peter was made redundant in 1972, and is now protected by English Heritage. Lincolnshire possesses very many Anglo-Saxon church towers, and St Peter's is one of England's best.

The large village of Heckington has two great buildings, the mill and the church of St Andrew, which is most unusual in that it was totally built in the same architectural style, Decorated, in a very few

Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house. The timbers of the upper storey have since been covered over by sandstone-coloured paint.

This shows the early 16th-century nave and aisle designed by John Wastell, the architect of King's College, Cambridge. Sir George Scott designed the hammer-beam roof and the chancel (1865-69).

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft. Because of the width of the river, vessels were launched sideways.

On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House. The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

On the right is the Wesleyan Chapel. John Wesley visited Newark on six occasions between 1743 and 1788.

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.The

To the west of Farley Heath and Blackheath, the hamlet of Blackheath grew up in Victorian times.

A little further on is the Plough, which we can see on the right behind the telephone kiosk (which is still there).

View C180008 was taken in front of the village hall. It is dated 1935, and is a large timber-framed building of some quality, convincingly done.

Sir John fought at Harfleur in 1415 during Henry V's invasion of France. His second wife was the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

Here we see two extremes of worship - the cathedral in the distance, and the more modest St Mary-on- the Bridge.

The statue of John Bright MP stands in front of Charles Kershaw`s Central Corn Mill.