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The original house was demolished in 1937.

Ford was built as a manor house by William Heron in 1338, but it was quickly raised in status to a castle. By 1367 Ford had been integrated into English defence planning for the North.

The 1873 Ordnance Survey map showed a fire engine house, belonging to the Sun Insurance Company, behind the building on the right.

Opposite the church is the Hoo, a large rambling house built in 1902. The Post Office proprietor was R F Brierley; alongside is the entrance to the builders' and decorators' yard, F J French & Sons.

A local mansion, Watergate House, is now demolished. The signboard of the Victoria Inn is visible to the left of the picture. The scene today is little changed.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

This building is no longer operating as a guest house; the caravan and camping park is now the main business, and it has had an indoor swimming pool since about 1980.

The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses.

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left. The street is little altered, apart from more formal pavements and roadway.

Built between 1860 and 1866, this building housed the financial offices of the corporation when the town hall proved to be too small for the ever-expanding city council.

A subsequent tenant of the manor house by the church, was Colonel Shrapnel, whose name is forever associated with his explosive invention.

The north side is dominated by Haven Green Court with its green roof tiles, a massive wall of five-storey flats built in 1927-38 and aimed at the London commuter - the flats replaced a large house,

It was always a popular tourist village, and there were two ferries over the Ribble, Trough House and Hacking Boat.

Midway between Coleford and Cinderford, the Speech House was built in 1676 as the Court of Verderers and Freeminers - the place where legal grievances relating specifically to the laws and customs

Around All Saints' parish church are a few older houses, but the church itself, apart from the medieval tower, was largely rebuilt in the 1860s.

The field in the view became British Timken's distribution depot for some years, but has now recently become another housing estate.

The white building to the right of the Co-op still houses the Conservative Club. On the left, Jean Green has opened her fashion shop, bringing style to the ladies of the town.

Beside it is McIntyre & Osborne, the Indian Tea House, later to become Loxham's Garage, and now demolished. The Town Hall is down Duke Street on the right.

The influx of population into the area that came with the growth of the mining industry from the late 18th century and the demands for ostentatious houses by the new landowners caused

advertisements for products as diverse as Brasso and Bluebell metal polishes, Mansion Polish for tiled floors and Silver Shred marmalade, while further down, the Victoria and Black Bull public houses

The almost new Vauxhall Wyvern E model is parked nearly opposite Collins, the antique dealer, and adjacent to the rather modern houses behind the slag-block wall.

It is alleged to have been the house of William Hogarth, the painter. Among its known drinkers were Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick.

At the far end of the left-hand row of houses we can just see the gable end of the Cottage Hospital, built in 1874 by Bell Brothers for the casualties inevitably arising from the local ironstone mining

Many of the houses here have the initials NEC, standing for the New England Company that once owned the parish. On the left is the post office, which closed in the 1980s, and the Chequers Inn.