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The market was held in the centre of the road, with cars passing on either side - a dangerous arrangement brought to an end in 1991 when both streams of traffic were moved to the north side.

The statues are badly worn by the strong westerly winds (which give the name of 'kill canon corner' to the north-west corner); they were also damaged by the 17th-century iconoclasts, who

Before this it was the premises for Brooke, a baker in the mid 19th century, and then a smaller Malmesbury bank which was taken over by North Wiltshire Banking Co.

More cars on the cobbles are noticeable now. The impressive edifice of the Midland Bank, number 12 Westgate, is second from the left.

It is 1897, and a golden age for the Clyde excursion steamer industry is dawning: operators sense that the ban on landings at some piers on the Sabbath will soon be broken.

IN 1908, in his Round About Wiltshire, A G Bradley wrote an idyllic description of the five mile 'run' between Beckhampton and Calne: 'One is on the wide open down, traversing the north-western

The land to the north-west went into Maulden parish and the rest went to Flitton parish.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

Some has been used in houses; along North Road and the Quay, large beach cobbles of the same stone have been split and used for building.

No 2 Dock, covering 34 acres of deep water, opened in 1898; the north side for coal, the south side for general cargo, and the eastern end for timber, with timber ponds covering 34 acres and six

On the north side of the village is Manor Farm, with its astonishingly complete array of farm buildings.

Lupton's Chapel was added in 1515, with its north and south-west porches; otherwise the main church remains much as Waynflete built it.

The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north. The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

By looking first at the Fryerns Neighbourhood, then Lee Chapel North, followed by more recent building near Laindon Station, you can see the changes that have taken place over the years.

Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford.

On the north side of the Market Square Barclays Bank, which had taken over the local bank in 1896, erected an imposing new building in 1901.

In 1905 the Edwardian Falinge Park was opened north of Rochdale centre. Something of its original beauty can be seen in this chapter.

The station entrance was moved from the western side to the north, where a new ticket and booking hall was built, together with a wide concourse for buses - this allowed their passengers to embark

This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.

Behind is a shallow arch in which is a long poem, worth reading in full. Sir Thomas's widow Elizabeth married Lord Russell, who died in 1583; she died in 1609.

Holyrood again plays a big part in the life of Falkirk, but this time it is neither the abbey nor the palace, but the re-convened Scottish parliament.

We are looking north towards Kemple End. The first sod of the railway line at Clitheroe was cut on 30 December 1846.

He put in the vivid coloured tiles on the east wall, and he is responsible for the Perpendicular south aisle and west end. The outline of a chapel remains in the east side walls.

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the