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Abridge was always well-supplied with pubs and tea-rooms. Here we see The Blue Boar with its fine Tuscan porch (left), and opposite, The Retreat (now the post office).

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

Prize money of 300 guineas was announced for a competition in 1866 to design and lay out an area for 'the delight and pleasure of the public'.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

It was once Shergold's grocery, and still has beautiful tiles on the walls.

St John's Bridge is on the left. The Avon Mill at this time was occupied by Hugh Dryden & Co Ltd, who sold antiques and works of art here until the late 1970s.

The local population in the Middle Ages made a living from agriculture, fishing, boat-building, and ferrying traffic up and down the river.

It was built by Sir William Stradling during the reign of Edward III, and remodelled during the Tudor period. There are two wards, the outer defended by a gatehouse with a portcullis.

AND SO, with the new millennium, to modern times. It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

The horse-drawn trams were a long-established feature of the city, and the system was still being extended up the Cregagh and Anderstown Roads.

This had already been the capital of the Trinovantes, the tribe whose territory covered Essex and east Suffolk.

The new mills and factories not only changed the skyline of Carlisle: they had a radical impact upon the very nature of the city.

The estate dates to the early 13th century, and was owned by William de Polesdene. It was later occupied by Thomas Slyfield, and was granted to John Norbury in 1470.

Walsall has always adapted to changing economic climates and consumer demand, from its first industries in limestone, coal mining and metalwork through to the leather trade and now retailing.

.` In 1962 Mrs C Nicholls, born in 1872, recalled walking to St John`s School, Bradmore Green from Hooley: `We used to walk up to the Star [near Star Lane], turn left over the railway bridge

The town also acquired that other symbol of Georgian respectability and status: Assembly Rooms, in Bell Street.