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were razed to the ground over the following three or four years, including the tall Phoenix Mill at Rashcliffe which had been empty for some time, Engine Bridge Mill at Folly Hall, the mills of Colne

Once, wool dominated Calne: then it was pigs. The Harris bacon factory (in the background) was established as one of the main industries in this town.

In 1896 Groudle Glen opened its own railway from Lhen Coan station to a terminus at Sea Lion Cove, and at less than one mile in length it was one of the shortest passenger-carrying railways in the world

The Georgian style was dominant in the architecture of many of Calne's buildings, from town houses and hotels to smaller cottages.

This view of the bottom of the Strand in Calne is now much changed.

We are on the A4 road to Marlborough, looking towards Calne. At this point there is now a major roundabout which takes traffic right to Avebury, or left to Devizes.

Designed by William Jervis Stent, a non- conformist Warminster architect (he also designed the Laverton Institute in Westbury and Calne Free Church), it became the Picture Palace in 1912

Designed by William Jervis Stent, a non- conformist Warminster architect (he also designed the Laverton Institute in Westbury and Calne Free Church), it became the Picture Palace in 1912

The town of Calne boasts a stunning and attractive Perpendicular church, which was funded by the once- prosperous local cloth trade.

Votive offerings were often thrown into the water: today, tourists often do the same by throwing coins into fountains and wells.

This part of Calne is unrecognisable now. Phelps Chambers, on the right, was demolished as part of developments in 1973.

It was one of the schoolboys here, Thomas Brown, who coined the rhyme (about a master): 'I do not love thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee

At some point in its history, the fort was occupied by the Romans, for the coins of several emperors and other imperial artefacts have been found there.

RAF Compton Bassett was built on farmland mainly in Calne and Cherhill parishes, and operated from 1940 to 1964.

Thomas became the Whig MP for Calne, Leeds, but it was his masterpiece - 'A History of England', that brought him fame.

Calne pop group The Pack reached No 27 in the UK charts with Do You Believe in Magic? in 1965.

The post office stores continues to supply the needs of the village, and even the letterbox, advising that 'letters containing coin, paper money, or jewellery should not be posted in the

Built for the Seaham Harbour Dock Co in 1909 she spent her entire working life at Seaham before being scrapped in 1962.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

construction by Blackford & Son: the building used '3650 cart loads of stone …. 75000 tiles cover the roofs' and 'the electrical installation has taken nearly three miles of wire and is the first scheme in Calne

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green.A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.An iron pot containing a large number of coins of Edward the Confessor was found in

'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush', goes the old saying; hence the landlord could be warning visitors that a coin in his hand is worth any number of promises - in other words, no credit will

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

its name to an unlikely incident after the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, when Charles I is said to have come here and demanded that the local gentry donate silverware to be melted down and minted into coins