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Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

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

Work began in 1902 on a new basin, and it was opened by King Edward VII in July 1908. The Royal Edward dock had a water area of 25 acres and a graving dock 875ft in length.

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.

Restoration of the 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.

The decision was made to demolish the building and in its place build a multi-purpose church (in Hargreaves Street, see photograph A19722), and the demolition of the church began in June 1987.

In 1904 trials began of a lifeboat experimentally fitted with a petrol engine; this in turn led to the commissioning of the first custom-built motor lifeboat in 1908.

Work on Denbigh began in October 1282 during the second of Edward I's Welsh Wars.

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

The houses were swept away during the series of 'slum' clearances that began in the 1930s.

A major rebuilding programme of the harbour began a hundred years ago, and for a few years before the Great War the herring trade flourished; but it was all a short-lived dream.

Construction of Hadleigh began in the 13th century, when Baron Hubert de Burgh was granted a licence to build.

It began in 1827, when a 14-acre farm was bought from Lord Donegall. In 1840 a long conservatory was built, and 12 years later the palm house was added.

The long, sandy beach leading eastwards to Hengistbury Head began to be developed around 1870. The pier was built of iron in 1881, and measured 300 feet in length by 30 feet wide.

Denmead started to grow when Portsea Island began to expand its boundaries and creep up over Portsdown Hill.

The construction of the new St Augustine's began in 1865; dedication by the Bishop of Llandaff followed the next year.

The Union Canal Bill was approved by Parliament in 1793, and work began in 1794, reaching Fleckney in 1796.

The church of All Saints at the east end of the village began as a chapel in 1847, increasing in size fifty years later.

However, the sands gradually began to engulf the station, and it was closed down in 1919.

In 1765 he began his career as a master road builder, completing the construction of 200 miles of highway across the North.

Once the lead had been removed from the roof it was not long before the structure began to crumble, and many of the stones were taken.

Sir Edward Goschen was British Ambassador in Berlin in 1914 when the war began. Seacox Park has a magnificent collection of trees and shrubs.

In 1877, John Player began making ready-rolled cigarettes.