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In front is a weird Morris Eight, with timber framed shooting brake character, a veteran of the 1930s.

Over three centuries it was the dower home of eight medieval queens in succession.

The statue is eight-and-a-half feet high on a Portland stone plinth. It was unveiled by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, on 10 June 1913.

The Eight Bells (left) closed in the 1980s and is now Peal House. Many other houses have a bell connection. The Post Office Stores on the corner closed in 1991.

Its peal of eight bells is well-known to campanologists. Money was left for the building of the stone church and tower in the will of Jane Salisbury, tragically killed on the railway in 1922.

Higher still on the upper basin were eight sea urchins blowing their horns, and finally the pinnacle was composed of four entwined dolphins.

St Nicholas' is particularly proud of its peal of eight bells, which includes one cast in the 1500s and another, recast in 1946, in memory of the travelling evangelist, Gypsy Smith.

With ten guns on board, she was heavier-armed than the 'Hercules', but she could only manage a top speed of eight knots even in good conditions.

Around the base are eight niches in which to kneel and repent.

Around the base are eight niches in which to kneel and repent.

At the time of the photograph it was for "eight deserving women" but this was reduced to four to ease overcrowding.

The buildings were to undergo further extensive restoration at the hands of the mountaineer Lord Martin Conway eight years after this picture was taken.

The buildings were to undergo further extensive restoration at the hands of the mountaineer Lord Martin Conway eight years after this picture was taken.

The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two First World War hangers. There was a bandstand on the green, an outdoor and indoor skating rink, three cinemas and a stage for pierrots.

Eight massive cooling towers dominate the site today, and look out over the old graveyard of St Andrew's Church.

This photograph shows the view north-westwards up Church Street from beside the Old Monmouth Hotel, with the churchyard railings on the right.

The next three views give us a novel opportunity to stroll along the High Street over a period of sixty-eight years, and witness some of the numerous changes which took place before its eventual

In 1965, according to a sign in the window of Price's electrical shop in the centre of the village, it was possible to rent a television at a cost of eight shillings a week.

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

It hangs on eight chains in two sets over two piers, with adjustment at one end into the rock under the castle, and at the other end into solid rock.

At the time of the photograph it was for "eight deserving women" but this was reduced to four to ease overcrowding.

This end of Upper Parliament Street, with the Theatre Royal halfway along and out of sight on the left, has seen many changes since the 1950s.

Originally built as eight houses in 'limewashed limestone rubble with ashlar ridge stone mullioned windows', in what Pevsner refers to as 'the local vernacular style', they were later

The inquiry into the disaster led to three disagreeing reports in 1937 on the causes of the disaster and the owner William Bonsall was convicted on eight counts of breaking mining safety laws, yet he was