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Shaw developed as part of Crompton and by the early 1900s it had 29 spinning mills.

Shaw had to wait until 1863 for its rail- way, but the industrial expansion that followed was also substantial; the photographs capture a character that is uniquely Shaw`s.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

Well- known persons came to enjoy the air, that was thought to be on a par with Switzerland; they included George Bernard Shaw and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The main hotel at Pegwell Bay was The Belle Vue, run by William Shaw.

One of its customers was George Bernard Shaw, who rented a house in the village.

George Bernard Shaw used to attend meetings of the Fabian Society at a house in the village. Fernhurst is closely associated with the Sussex ironworks industry.

The 17th-century box pews were irreparably damaged in the 'restoration' of the 1860s by Norman Shaw, when they were cut down.

On the other side of the road the Great George has its familiar and rather curious two-sided sign— it has George Bernard Shaw and George Washington on it.

It was built in 1876 to designs by Norman Shaw, his only house in the area. It is now a Grade II listed building.

Halifax is also where English toffee was invented, and it was here in 1934 that Percy Shaw produced the first cats' eyes, or to give them their proper name, reflecting road studs.

Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,

Theatre goers were enjoying performances by Jose Collins in ‘Our Nell’.The glittering building was designed by the very fashionable architect Norman Shaw and opened to theatre goers in 1903.

Shaw's Tea Room is on the right - they advertise jazz nights.

Dotheboys Hall was where William Shaw ran his notorious Bowes Academy, upon which Charles Dickens based Dotheboys Hall in his novel 'Nicholas Nickleby'.

Sun lounges were in fashion, partly thanks to George Bernard Shaw, who had his entire house fitted out with windows of Vita glass.

In the 1920s the personnel list included one Aircraftman Shaw - Lawrence of Arabia.

As well as Newman, who had an interesting line in metal trunks and chests, bird-cages and bicycles, there was Thomas Wood & Sons for lamps and household appliances, including zinc baths, and Shaws

From the south bank, near Westminster Bridge, completed in 1862, this view shows the bell tower known universally by its great bell, Big Ben.

The 17th-century box pews were irreparably damaged in the 'restoration' of the 1860s by Norman Shaw, when they were cut down.

The 17th-century box pews were irreparably damaged in the 'restoration' of the 1860s by Norman Shaw, when they were cut down.

This photograph shows the back of the late-Victorian rectory which became the home of the writer George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950, at the age of ninety-four.

Shaw's Tea Room is on the right - they advertise jazz nights.

The once-grand Eccles Hotel, facing the sea, attracted literary giants such as Thackeray, Yeats and Shaw.