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The crown was made as part of the decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and was sold to Canada after the celebrations.

Demolition of the Grammar School began in June 1998, and by the following January plans were approved for the building of these modern homes.

It was worth awaiting, as it is a splendid edifice, decorated with portraits of the Stuart kings and the one tragic Queen of Scots and topped by a long column with, at its summit, the unicorn, holding

It was a reminder of the much- missed old travelling fairs that travelled through the area during the summer months, giving the townsfolk an excuse to enjoy themselves.

Was the Millennium Dome at Greenwich based on Kingswinford shopping centre? Perhaps we should be told!

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

In this photograph, taken a few years after 56473 (pages 30-31), horse carriages still await their fares in the centre of Brook Street.

Positioned on the Firth of Clyde, this seaside resort looks across the Firth towards Kilcreggan, Loch Long and Dunoon.

Jireh Court has been a particularly successful development, primarily because of its location, just a five-minute walk to either the bus or railway station, yet only five minutes from the Broadway

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the type of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-storey terraces

After a disastrous fire in 1174, the new choir was designed by William of Sens, a French master mason who was versed in the Gothic style of northern France, with its pointed arches and universal stone-built

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

All is peace and quiet in this scene, but things were livelier on 23 January 1570. Lord James Stewart, Earl of Moray and Regent, was shot by James Hamilton as he rode through the town.

The Swan Inn advertises 'Good Accommodation for Cyclists', and another sign offers 'Horse and Trap or Wagonette for Hire'. Cycling would have been hard going on the rough roads.

Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime

Here we have an early view of Towan Beach, with everyone overdressed for the seaside. A game of tennis is in progress on a court marked out in the sand.

A few improvements have been made in the ten years since the previous pictures of Port Soderick were taken.

We are at the junction of Wingrave Road on the left, which leads into Tring past the site of the old Tring silk mill, and Tringford Road on the right; the photographer is standing in Bulbourne

As with Inveraray Castle, the redevelopment meant the removal of the old village, which in this case had grown up round the Augustinian monastery destroyed in 1599.

St Barnabas Church was built in the 1880s to the designs of Carpenter and Ingelow.

Albion Road, the most easterly of the Victorian developments south of the railway, has its back garden fences along the parish boundary with Carshalton.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

Ribbon development of local stone houses under thatched and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close