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Beoley predates Redditch, but it remains a small village on the northern edge of the present New Town.

It has a history of mining. The limestone from the hills is used to build the farm cottages of this peaceful part of Yorkshire.

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

The west end of Paragon Street took its name from the late 18th-century inn of the same name, which occupied the corner of the nearby Chariot Street.

Other members of the family also lived in large houses in the town.

The popularity of Box Hill, once called the White Hill from its chalk bluff and affording a splendid view across the Weald from its summit of just over 600ft, reached an apogee during the late Victorian

In 1581 Scone was given to the Earl of Gowrie. Following the forfeiture of his lands in 1600, it passed into the ownership of Sir David Murray of Gospetrie.

The coming of the railway in 1884 prompted the tasteful residential development of this new part of the village of Oxted, overlooking the Weald.

The old town of Strood, on the west bank of the River Medway, was incorporated into Rochester in 1835.

This monumental fountain in the centre of St James Square was built in memory of the Lawson Tancred family, and stands on the site of the former parish church of St James, now moved to Church Lane.

The original part of the town of Alsager was to the north of here.

This photograph gives us a close view of the Octagon, 'a unique and arresting achievement of the Late Decorated period' (Alec Clifton-Taylor).

The old town of Strood, on the west bank of the River Medway, was incorporated into Rochester in 1835.

There is a fine statue of General Charles Gordon of Khartoum in the grounds of Gordon School, that was built here as a boys' school in 1885.

On the right are the buildings of the Community of St Denys, now part of Warminster School.

This shows the far end of the Avenue, looking into York Street.

Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers. The thick reed beds obscure the exact edge of the land.

In the distance we get some idea of the development of this end of the town.

Winsford High Street boasted an outlet of the Zan chain of ironmongers.

Before the development of the Tudor-style half-timbered buildings on the north side of the street, the view from the top of the Eastgate looking towards the Cross was much less impressive.

This busy shopping street has buildings of human scale of the 1920s and 30s, with a prominent well-designed Midland Bank sign now replaced by the anonymous HSBC of the Eastern Banking Empire.

During its first year of operations the MSC handled exports totalling 299,407 tons and imports of 386,751 tons; in 1897 the figures rose to 494,862 tons and 1,053,637 tons respectively.

He was certainly a man of his time; he was a veteran of the wars in Ireland, Chamberlain of Chester, and a member of the Council in the Marches.

The broad straight streets tell of land recovered from river and docks. The church tells of the human needs that followed.