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Messrs Parke & White of 45 Broadgate (extreme left) closed in 1958, and the site is now the new and expanded Lincoln City Library.

She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes.

The Sainsbury superstore opened in 1990, and is easily recognisable from both the railway station platforms and any passing train.

It was taken down in 1793, and a new Exchange was started in 1806.

Because of the famous Pendle witch trials in 1612, the hill has gained a reputation for sorcery and evil deeds.Those who know the area treat these superstitious tales with a pinch of salt,

But most of all, Edwards remembered Clay Hill - West Hill as it is now - where he enjoyed the hospitality of Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, and was taken to view his stables.

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

Leaving Daventry on the west-bound turnpike to Warwick and Stratford upon Avon we arrive at Staverton village.

A former International Exhibition Hall, and a 'Peoples Palace', the first building was designed by John Johnson and Alfred Meeson, and opened in 1873.

Men and women who wished to be hired stood in line at the top of the High Street dressed in their smocks and carrying the emblems of their trade.

The Chapel abounds with monuments of beauty and dignity.

As one of Carlisle's best known sons, the writer Hunter Davies, observed, 'my memories of Carlisle in 1950s was of a dirty, dreary, noisy, smoky, industrial town'.

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.

This area is now pedestrianised, and has greatly changed.

This area is now pedestrianised, and has greatly changed.

Laid down at Plymouth Dockyard as HMS 'London' in 1819, her name was changed during her somewhat slow construction; she was not launched until July 1828.

We are looking down Oxford Street, with the market cross on the left.

His son bred horses and named the local pub the Altisadora after a St Leger winner.

At Baldock it formed the length of White Horse Street and Hitchin Street.

This 1903 view looking south down the High Street is full of detail.

The Blue Boot Stores has been replaced by Ingles's furniture store, and Taylors has taken over the responsibilities of Page's Forage Stores in selling pet supplies under the name of Wagger's Food Farm.

The earliest evidence indicates that Iron and Bronze Age man lived here.

In 1758 William Page pulled down the existing house for a new building; he remained the owner and occupier for approximately five years.