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St Bartholomew's church dates back to 1240, but even before that there was a church on this high ground. The strong tower appeared in 1450.

It is after World War II, and Britain is getting back into economic gear. The Pier Orchestra under Lionel Johns continues to entertain.

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

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

A royd is a northern name for an assart, a practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.They would sow

The word 'fold' means an enclosure of land for animals, and 'Chadynge`s fold' may well date back to the Saxon period.

Part of the nave and the chancel at St Mary's has walls dating back to Saxon times, and the walls incorporate many Roman bricks.

A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

His stepmother brought him a cup of wine and, as he drank, one of her servants stabbed the king in the back.

As we turn our back on the Market Square, High Street runs westward to Sheaf Street.

On the corner are No 2 Back Street and 20 Market Street (centre) whre W J Perry offers gifts and cream teas. Both are built of local iron-stained oolitic limestone.

Between Preston and Clitheroe lies Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley, backed by Longridge fells.

Closer in, you can look down on Weston Bay and Weston-super-Mare to the north: it is probably better not to look too closely at the holiday sprawl along the road back to Burnham-on-Sea.

It dates back some 3,500 years to the Bronze Age, and was a ritual stone circle and burial chamber.

If required to wait and then bring the clients back to Altrincham, it would be charged out by the hour.

Back in 1851 Sheffield was one of the towns at the centre of a price-cutting war between the Midland and the Great Northern railway companies for the lucrative passenger traffic associated with the Great

The sudden inward rush of water up the Severn is at its best when backed by a south-westerly wind; then the bore is like the one pictured here.

Further back, on the left is the butcher`s shop of G M Gilbert, and then the White Hart public house.

Further back, on the left is the butcher`s shop of G M Gilbert, and then the White Hart public house.

'Ferry No.1', dating back to the inauguration of the service in 1926, was supplemented by postwar 'Ferry No.2' in the 1920s.

Standing further back from the College, we can see part of the grounds in front of the building.

A motte and bailey was built here in the early 1070s by Robert de Rhuddlan, but the ruins we see today date back to the fortress of Edward I.

The Duke's Head Inn (right), which would appear to date back to the 16th or 17th century from its quaint interior, is still here at the side of what is now a modern dual carriageway.