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This impractical arrangement came to an end, and the parishes then became responsible for the upkeep of roads within their boundaries.

A fine Georgian building, the hotel came complete with a Long Room where Leyburn Market Club, founded in 1832, still holds its dinners.

The crowds came in greater numbers after the Snowdon Mountain Railway opened in 1896, which provided easy access to the summit for hundreds of holidaymakers.

The wood came from Scandinavia, Russia and Canada, and was used in the city's furniture and match-making industries.

Chalybeate Street on the right led to the chalybeate well, which was used by visitors who came to drink its waters.

Held in the Square in the 19th century, six hundred stallholders came from all over the country, and great crowds from the Fylde turned up.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

Golders Green was farmland until the turn of the century; prosperity came in 1905 with the arrival of the Northern line.

Also, in the same year a North of England XI entertained the Australian team.

Its claim to fame are the Siamese twins pictured on the village sign (not visible on the photograph); known as Eliza and Mary, they were born joined at the shoulder and hip and lived together like this

Also, in the same year a North of England XI entertained the Australian team.

It later came into the possession of the Vane family, though it was temporarily lost by them to the Royalists during the English Civil War following a surprise attack.

In 1730 Mrs Orton ensured the village's undying fame, for although she sold it at Stilton in Huntingdonshire, it was here that she created Stilton cheese.

A busy port became the Royal Mail route, and then came the beautifully-engineered harbour and a lighthouse.

In the 1800s, the villagers' income came from the straw-plaiting industry, which served the hat-making trade at Luton.

The original water supply to the village came from Diana's well, and the large stone (dated 1859) at the end of the green (centre left) still retains a tap.

The Queen came here in her Jubilee year, 1977, to unveil a stone commemorating the crowning of her predecessor Edward the Elder on this site 1100 years ago.

Old deeds of many of the East Cliff houses often included particulars of 'drying grounds', the rights of which came with the building in question.

Fortunately for the village, this was also the time of the new tourist industry: Victorians came in search of peace and tranquillity away from the industrial West Riding.

The name Hodder means 'pleasant stream'.

Already 21 years old when he came to Epsom, he had by then earned £25,000 at stud.

Aytoun Street gets its name from Roger Aytoun (known as Spanking Roger), who came to Manchester from Scotland as an officer in the army.

In 1777 an Act of Parliament allowed for the founding of Exhibitions and the appointment of assistant masters, and thus in 1778 Dr Thomas James became the first Headmaster.

The lords of the manor, who took their name from the village, came here in the time of Henry II; John, son of Ybri de Belaugh, had a large estate.