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This eastern entrance eventually came to be known as Bellgate, since the Bell public house stands further up the hill to the right.

This track could be part of the route along which came supplies of wool for Dolphinholme Mill.

Walmgate came under heavy attack by cannons and mines in the 1644 siege of York.

Glen Middle Mill 1908 If Sally Spencer, the lady looking at the photographer, came back today, she would see that almost all in this view (except the rear block of Pavey's Temperance Hotel) has

General Shubrick's clock over the door came from the Round House when the Andover Turnpike Trust was wound up.

The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones.

The tramway from Bradford came here in 1914, but the first road accident happened years earlier in 1900.

It is famed for a carved pillar featuring entwined ribbands.

In 1860 the house was occupied by George and Elizabeth Torr, and by 1879 it was famed for its gardens and its annual display of azaleas, but in the mid 1920s it was turned into a school for girls.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on the finished

Built in the 1780s as the Miners` Arms, this premises changed its name to the Wizard Inn in 1843.

The two claimed to be going hunting, but came instead to Eccleshall; here they were baptized by Bishop Chad.

Comic genius Peter Sellers probably came here many times during his childhood.

It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.

There is a room on the first floor, reached by a stair and guarded by a portcullis, which suggests that this was a defensive position for use when the Scots came on one of their cattle raids.

There is a room on the first floor, reached by a stair and guarded by a portcullis, which suggests that this was a defensive position for use when the Scots came on one of their cattle raids.

This is an Edwardian building, but there has been a house of this name here since at least the 18th century.

Kidderminster owes its fame to the manufacture of carpets, but had prospered from the weaving trade long before that.

When a new rector came to Chipstead's church of St Margaret in 1809, he got something of a shock.

The 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

As at Tipton and Wednesbury, the 30 ft seam of Thick Coal was near the surface at Bilston.Though there is evidence for coal pits at the time of Edward I, Bilston came into its own during the 19th century

Its parish church, Christ Church, was erected in 1837, shortly after Queen Victoria came to the throne.