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The town is dominated by the Market Place and the church of St Lawrence.

They include the names of several Soham men who died in captivity in the Far East following the capture of Singapore by the Japanese in 1942.

Annual tobacco imports through the docks rose from 349 tons in 1880 to 2278 in 1910, and by the mid 1920s the average was 24,000 tons a year.

Annual tobacco imports through the docks rose from 349 tons in 1880 to 2278 in 1910, and by the mid 1920s the average was 24,000 tons a year.

The great Victorian architect William Butterfield (1814-1900) rebuilt the south porch in 1851, and minor works were carried out here by the equally eminent John Loughborough Pearson (1817-97

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The consecration of the chapel was delayed because a murder had been committed on the premises by the chief stonemason.

Since then it has been used by Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus, air refuelling bases, the Hampshire Flying Club and, in 1918, by the USNAF.

Situated by the side of the main road through Alford, the church of St Wilfrid is built mainly of Lincolnshire green stone, which does not wear too well.

The village of Hampstead Norris nestles in a shallow valley, the buildings dominated by the short broad tower of St Mary's church in the background.

A large demonstration was held, which turned violent when soldiers confronted crowds close by the Westgate Hotel. The demonstrators eventually fled, leaving Frost to face execution.

The foundation stone was laid on 15 September 1897 by Lady Gertrude Rolle in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; the site was donated by the Hon Mark Rolle.

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

Eventually the row was bought by the council and pulled down to make way for the new promenade that they had planned.

This is the original Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which

The Royal Lancaster Infirmary is pictured in the year this building was opened by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, later to be George V and Queen Mary.

By the late 1890s, Bridgnorth was a carpet-making town with a population of about 6000.

By the 1950s, when Harborough Hall was bought by Birmingham corporation, radical repair work was necessary to the timber, wattle and daub.

The High Street was transformed by the BBC in October 1994 into Meryton, the fictional village in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

In 1942, after lying unused for years in the GWR stores, it was purchased by the Borough Council and erected in the Town Gardens as a café.

Cattle still graze here, but beyond the left-hand dredging barges the view north is now dominated by the cooling towers and chimneys of High Marnham Power Station, opened in 1962.

This ten-acre park was purchased by the council with the help of donations in 1904 from the landowner, Mrs Maynell Ingram of Temple Newsam House, Leeds.