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In 1916, the L31 Zeppelin was shot down and crashed in the farm estate of Oakmere House. The local people rushed to the house and woke Mrs Forbes, who appeared at the door in her night clothes.

Further down, Esso Royal Daylight Oil and Calor Gas are advertised. Was this part of Alec Bilsdon's business?

recalled walking to St John`s School, Bradmore Green from Hooley: `We used to walk up to the Star [near Star Lane], turn left over the railway bridge, through lanes and across Farthing Down

James O' Neill bought the living for himself when St Mary's had become run down; he remained there for 35 years. St Mary's had been the centrepiece of the old order, but could it remain so?

This magnificent building has a history all of its own. 'No part of Henry VI's scheme for a college was of greater importance than that of a church', according to the Eton guide book.

The steps lead down to the Linolite factory, which incorporated C R Luce`s brewery, and the Postern Mill (which was irresponsibly demolished in 1984).

In the Middle Ages the settlement at Twickenham was a cluster of houses in streets around St Mary's Church and in narrow alleys nearby leading down to the river.

The painter J M Whistler visited the fashionable seaside town of Lyme Regis in 1895.

By 1891 the local fleet was down to 174 boats employing 860 men and boys and landing an annual catch valued at just under £3000.

The local population in the Middle Ages made a living from agriculture, fishing, boat-building, and ferrying traffic up and down the river.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

Every morning some of the inmates would wend their way into the town to work in the houses or the inns.

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

No sooner had Thomas Mildmay obtained the manor of Chelmsford than the townspeople began to clamour for a new Market Cross: the old one was falling down around the judges' ears.

The structure jutted 1,240 feet out to sea and a small rail link brought passengers and their luggage down to landside porters.

Geoff Cox said: 'I think the negative image goes back to Lorraine Chase and the Luton Airport advertisement (for Campari); it led to the naff town idea.

The town's original swimming pool was built in Mereway in 1896, and used for many years before closing due to pollution of the water.

hill of lime or loose stones' is one meaning suggested in a recent book, or if we believe the name has a Celtic derivation, we end up with 'the shelter on a rock'; but no one can really pin the meaning down

In 1897 the commissioners were landlords to a yard employing nearly 9,000 on the County Down side.

By the time the railway arrived in Blackpool in 1846, the town was already a resort attracting several thousand visitors a year. Baileys Hotel, later the Metropole, had opened in 1776.

The town was changing, and the old order was changing with it. 45 new residential roads were added to the street map in the 1920s.

The parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, developed from the Norman period onward through the Middle Ages, and is down in a dip at the junction of several streets.

The west end was boarded up, and the aisle was left with five rather than the seven bays initially planned; the pulpit ended up more than half way down the church.

However, it would be over 50 years before the General Enclosure Act was passed in 1858, which would enable further parts of the Heath to be enclosed, and the skeletal structure of the town to