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Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.

Some of the two hundred navvies engaged in building the Portsmouth Railway line were drinking here late one evening, when Donaldson attempted to enforce closing time, and was struck down by a blow from

The brewery chimney came down in 1959, and the remaining building became the site of the bus station. On the outskirts of the town was the Naval Training Ship HMS 'Cabot'.

The landlord hired out boats by the hour, as well as providing trips up and down the river. He had the unfortunate name of Mr Crook.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.

Racing was their passion, and A PRINT OF ECLIPSE ZZZ05329 (Bourne Hall Museum) After the painting by George Stubbs, showing Eclipse at the Rubbing House on the Downs.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

The corn mill burned down in 1961, and then in 1964 Dr Beeching swung his axe and the pretty railway line from Buntingford to Ware was closed. All was set for Standon to slip into a decline.

It was taken down in 1793, and a new Exchange was started in 1806. By 1849 there had been two extensions added, along with a post office and news room.

In 1826 she was based at Bude; in 1852 she was sold to Henry Petherick, whose family were to own her until 1936.

The market stalls include an ice cream salesman (centre foreground) immediately in front of the steps leading down to the ladies' convenience!

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down. The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.

In 1620 the castle was in such a run-down state that only the Eagle Tower and the King's Tower were roofed.

The house was used as a school from 1921, but it burned down on 15 July 1951. Wakefield College now stands on the site.

The scaffolding is there because the rest of the building has just been pulled down.

It was burnt down by Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni in AD61, along with the rest of the town, as a symbol of Roman oppression.

On the right is a bathing machine, which would be trundled down into the shallows by the patient horse so that lady bathers could dip their toes with no fear of prying eyes.

Further down the hill, on the corner of Throwley Road, the cupola surmounting the Municipal Offices rises above the surrounding buildings. Beyond is the white stone frontage of the Gaumont Cinema.

Its core collection, gathered together by Philpot's sisters at their home in Silver Street, was moved down the hill in stages, but the Philpot Museum did not open to the general public until

It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens. It was once a strategic seaport, where coasters transhipped their cargoes into fenland lighters.

These cumbersome devices were backed into the sea by horses, and the incumbent then disembarked down steps at the rear, protected from cold winds and inquisitive stares by a collapsible umbrella