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St Katharine was the patron saint of millers, saddlers, wheelwrights and teachers - all trades and professions which appropriately flourished in Ickleford.

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

This castellated building dating from 1877 was designed for Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale to guard the entrance to the drive up to Lowther Castle.

We see the Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand

In the mid to late 1950s, this pattern of school building was springing up everywhere.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Teffont, 10 miles west of Salisbury, is the combination of the villages of Teffont Evias and Teffont Magna; both have small churches maintained and still in use by the whole combined parish of

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

In this picture things have quietened down a little, and the policeman on point duty has only one waggon and several horse-trams and horse-drawn omnibuses to dodge.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

An anonymous offer of £20,000 had been received, which would enable part of the land to be bought for the National Trust.

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Here we have a closer view of the quiet main street; note the sign of the Golden Cocker Café by the street lamp.

We can see from the size of the bus queues that private car ownership was still something of a novelty. In 1954, sales of new cars in the UK totalled 394,362, with just 4660 imported cars.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

The present church of St Leonard was begun in 1650 but has continued to be altered, with Gothic style windows in 1843, the raising of the roof and the addition of a north aisle in the 1860s.

Frith's photographer was looking west away from the Council House, with Long Row on the right.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

The tower of St Wilfrid's Church had to be the perch of the photographer for him to take this shot.