Search Results

Restoration work began in 1973, and the canal reopened in 1991. The area was an Army training ground. Boating cost one shilling (5 pence) per hour.

It began as a square castellated pele tower to which was added a hall range. It was further extended and modernised in the 19th century.

Work began in 1577, but the building remained unfinished until 1895.

Test cricket began at?Headingley in 1899.

During the 17th century, one of the country's first paper mills was built in the village, a far cry from Euxton's industrial role in the 20th century, when a munitions factory began production here

It was only in the late Victorian era when builders began to throw up lines of villas overlooking the sea that Woolacombe's attractions were discovered.

It began life as the Merchants' Exchange, with an open-arched arcade on the ground floor. This was blocked in 1718 when the building was converted for use as a Customs House.

Quite early in the 19th century the University of Durham began offering places to those without means. Hatfield College opened in 1846.

Monks from nearby Jervaulx Abbey began the tradition of horse breeding in this dale.

Long established locally, Pocklingtons the bakers began in nearby Withern in 1924, and have been here since 1996.

The village purchased it in 1223 and immediately miraculous cures began to happen, with dead people being restored to life. The same year Henry III visited the priory and granted the village a fair.

At the time this photograph was taken, sailing vessels were more numerous than steamers; but a few years later, seeing the advantages that steam gave over sail, shipowners began to dispose of sailing ships

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

The Harbour View began its existence as a sea water bath emporium, and was latterly the clubhouse for the Exmouth Yacht Club. It has been a café for well over half a century.

The word Spa was added to the town's name in 1840 when the Penny Post began.

Repairs began, but when in 1942 they were almost complete, the hall was bombed and very badly damaged. In the 1950s the hall was rebuilt as near to the original design as possible.

As caravanning grew in popularity during the 1950s, many small sites began to compete with the already established holiday camps, providing facilities, shops and often entertainment in a purpose built

In 1695 Bishop Lloyd began rebuilding the castle, and it continued as a residence until the death of Bishop Lonsdale in 1867.

Restoration of the by then derelict pier began in 1996. The elegance of the pier was reflected in the broad streets of the town, which were built to resemble fine boulevards.

With the coming of the railways and international currency dealings, the City began to prosper as it never had before, with small investors flocking to involve themselves in the heady world of stocks and

Flemish weavers began to arrive in the town in the 13th century, at about the time that Kidderminster became a borough.

institute, which offered a range of evening classes for workers, and was famed for its penny lectures, was one of the earlier projects linked with a major redevelopment of the town centre that began

Seahouses managed to hang on to its smaller sailing fishing boats until the 1920s, when motor-driven drifters began to be used.

Work began in 1803 and finished in 1808.