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It also enjoyed in the 19th and 20th centuries considerable wealth arising from the Tryst and the dynamic iron-founding industry.

The workhouse, with ¾-inch iron bars on the windows, imprisoned the paupers while keeping them from starvation.

Each mile of the way, you will know that you are treading in the footsteps of Iron Age man, Roman legions, quarrymen, farmers and poets.

For centuries Sheffield's ancient woods provided charcoal, the original fuel used for iron and steel making.

It was also the site of the ancient Christopher Inn (1404- 1862), and until mid 1887 it was the Somerset Hotel, with a cast iron covered porch, stone walls and sandstone floors.

Their headquarters, ironically, were in the same Middle Row house where the first cholera victims had died.

From the word go, the Romans probably installed a small military post beside the Can, on the site of the Iron Age houses. Whether or not it was continually manned, we do not know.

Frogmoor itself was stripped of its trees and paved over in the 1930s, although the ornate 1876 cast iron fountain survived until it was removed during the Second World War, allegedly for the war

From the 1920s war memorials appear in the photographs, which also show iron railings sacrificed during the Second World War. What the Frith views omit is interesting.

From the 1920s war memorials appear in the photographs, which also show iron railings sacrificed during the Second World War. What the Frith views omit is interesting.

Ironically, the only vestige of the original late Georgian houses is to be found on the north side of the square, where the terrace of 1807 was converted at the end of the century to become the

Each mile of the way, you will know that you are treading in the footsteps of Iron Age man, Roman legions, quarrymen, farmers and poets.

Both were iron-hulled cargo boats of less than 300 grt, built in the early 1870s by J & W Dudgeon, Cubitts Town, London, for the LC&DR to operate a six-days-a-week service between Dover and Calais.

Linford; a clay weight for a weaving loom at Pennyland; a spearhead near Rickley Wood, Bletchley; and a silver and gold pendant necklace on the skeleton of a woman at Shenley, along with some small iron

activities nearby, whilst above them is the imperial Roman eagle (a reminder of Roman roads that ran through Sussex) wearing around its neck a black-painted mill wheel representing the Sussex iron

It is ironic, perhaps, that its convenience has prompted a house- building programme, so that the population of Saxmundham has risen above 4000.

Alexander Wilson's Vauxhall Iron Works had outgrown its Vauxhall site in London, and in 1905 by chance moved to another area associated with the legendary Falkes de Breauté.

There were the lime works, four working corn mills, the breweries, the cattle trade, a brick- works, and an iron foundry; Dorking also had its own water pumping station and gas and light works.

There were the lime works, four working corn mills, the breweries, the cattle trade, a brick- works, and an iron foundry; Dorking also had its own water pumping station and gas and light works.

With some thousands of pounds in the kitty from the B&CSPCo fiasco, the iron-hulled paddler 'Alexandra' was ordered from Cairn & Co, Greenock.

One gentleman thought he was tossing down a halfpenny but it turned out to be a golden sovereign…Mother walked to Croydon to shop pushing a perambulator with wooden wheels and iron tyres and I

The earliest evidence indicates that Iron and Bronze Age man lived here.

This group of children and their parents or nannies is enjoying the sun and fresh air on the bank of the River Deben.

The scene is one mile east of the village - the sign shows Lloyd George, who came to live in Churt in 1921 and left in 1944, the year before his death. His house, Bron y de, formerly stood nearby.