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Note the congested, terraced housing typical of communities like this, which developed in the 19th century wherever industry took hold.

In the cliff that housed the mine there was a cave, Hob Holes: legend had it that a hob man, or goblin, lived there, who could cure whooping cough.

Standing by the gatehouse to the 'Big House'—Holker Hall—these four schoolchildren from Holker pose for the camera on a wet day.

The crypt of St German's used to house the bishop's prison, where those found guilty by the ecclesiastical court were imprisoned. The bishop's prison was last used in 1780.

The Post Office, here with advertising signs for Senior Service cigarettes fixed to the shopfront, is now a house.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

On the left, where the road sweeps round the corner, is the toll house for Lendal Bridge, built in 1863; it is now used as a teashop. The tram lines are plainly visible.

However, the Labour group on the council objected, as they did also to the proposed sale of council houses.

The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for his involvement in the Yorkshire uprising against the Dissolution.

Until 1866 there was a Market House and other buildings in the foreground, which were all swept away to re-open this part of the market place.

The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times. Note how the timber work on the first floor projects, or jetties, from the ground floor stonework.

It had its own granary, and on the right we can see part of the miller's house, a very substantial building, so he must have been doing well.

The house was built in 1866-1905 by Sir Cuthbert Quilter, MP and stockbroker. Here we see the construction still under way.

On the left the baker is delivering to No 46, one of the many decorative terraced houses in the road.

The early 19th-century Mill House has a two-storey central window. The bridge over the tailrace, partly built in hachestone, has rails and posts inscribed 'A Barnes Woodbridge 1901'.

Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

On the right are some of the new detached houses which backed onto the railway at the start of Upper Mulgrave Road.

The timber-framed building close to the bridge is known as the Old Siege House.

In this still mainly rural area, names redolent of the country abound: Pewter House Fold, Smalley Fold, Hubbersty Fold (like 'booth', 'fold' means a cowhouse or animal pen).

The church of St John the Baptist was built c1450, and so was the timber- framed Guild House just visible beyond the church in this view.

The buildings in the foreground - including the Marchioness of Exeter's Almshouses - were demolished about 40 years ago and replaced by modern houses, garages and a car park.

To the left is the Manchester Warehouse, 'complete house furnishers'. The heavily laden coach appears to serve either the Royal Gatehouse or the Lion Hotel.

The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.