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How many of these men came back wounded to be cared for at Frensham Military Hospital, based at a large mansion, Frensham Heights? How many were to return alive by the end of the following year?

By 1909, however, Wetherby was fighting back, attracting passing tourist trade, and gearing up for the automobile. The town boasted two AA-listed hotels with garaging for cars.

This rather imposing white- painted late 18th- or early 19th-century brick-faced pub under a slated roof is set back from the main village street, selling Shipstones Ales from a local Nottingham

This view looks back west from the far end of the High Street, beyond the infill buildings. Sackville House, on the far left, has now had its timber-framing exposed.

Little survives of the old town, although parts the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its beginnings.The 130 ft high neo-Gothic

What remained of the old building was the brick west tower dating back to around 1635.

The parish church of Saint Margaret and Saint Andrew dates back to at least 1146, and there may have been an earlier Saxon church on the site.

The church contains many brasses of men and women who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries; the chancel has delicate 15th-century screens, Jacobean altar rails and low arcades dating back

The long defunct Martins Bank echoes this period. In the centre stands Howell's 1930s extension - a stylish addition much lauded by architecture and design historians.

Stone-built weavers' houses, carpet weaving mills, and rope works all jostled for space along the banks of the river.

The struggle to drain the fen and maintain the banks of the rivers and lodes was endless. Celia Fiennes crossed the fens in 1695, and noted that the fens around Sutton were mostly under water.

The Highland Fling hotel and café (left) spent some years as an extremely large antiquarian bookshop and antiques centre before reverting back to being a café.

Opposite, two three-storey Georgian town houses (now the Job Centre and the Conservative Club) belonged 200 years ago to the Fryer family, founders of the Wilts and Dorset Bank and suppliers to the

The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.

They had been around for some time before that, however, perhaps as far back as the reign of Athelstan in the 10th century, and they held the manor until 1780.

The Village Hall is set back on the left beyond the forge. The River Brett runs parallel to the road over to the right.

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

The owners of these parked cars must be shopping. The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint.

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

Three boathouses existed along its banks, of which the chalet type, seen here, is the most interesting example.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

We are looking back across the Wye to the village. A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate.

The dark red brick gives the college buildings a serious and imposing air. The pillar box still exists, although it has been moved back against the wall.

Did they ever collect their pocket money from the Westminster Bank (right)?