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The post (centre left) marks the site of a set of iron gates which prevented vehicles from entering the yard during church services.

Castle Street was earmarked for major change, encouraging Neville's to give up their rented yard and purchase a new site out at Common Farm, Leagrave, for £3,397.

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

It was 4,405 square yards in area, and 96ft high and 125ft high to the top of the central dome.

Road, river and rail run within twenty yards of Thrutch (a dialect Lancashire word synonymous with great effort).

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

This caused the Sardinian Chapel to be moved several hundred yards north.

Richard Edmondson made an application under the General Pier and Harbour Act; his plan was to have a pier 307 yards long, with a grand pavilion, a conservatory or winter gardens, a theatre, a concert room

As he climbed the steep main street he must have heard Samuel Govier's hammer crashing against steel in his yard, and seen the glowing fire and the shower of incandescent sparks through the dim doorway

They also built a large warehouse, and Sudell Court and Sudell's Yard appeared round it. Henry Sudell, the last of the family to live in Blackburn, enclosed Woodfold Park, and built the Hall there.

Owing to the restricted depth of the site, the drill yard and drill tower are placed at the side of the fire station and not at the rear, as is the standard practice.

In 1897 the commissioners were landlords to a yard employing nearly 9,000 on the County Down side.

A few hundred yards along Horsham Road is the Bush Inn.

however, demand for this service outgrew the location, and so Royal Mail decamped to Springburn, erecting the Automated Processing Centre where once had stood the engine-sheds and locomotive yards

In the yard at the back there is a rare survival, a dovecote dating from the 13th or 14th century.

The yard has been substantially encroached upon by neighbouring buildings (see photograph S411009, below).

The yard has been substantially encroached upon by neighbouring buildings (see photograph S411009, below).

Consider this: give or take a few yards, Guglielmo Marconi founded the world's first radio factory on the very spot where a 1st-century pagan temple had once stood.

Until 'mixed bathing' was allowed by the Council around 1906/8, the separate rows of bathing machines for the sexes had to be kept apart by a space of 50 yards.

The borough council cleared 9,000 square yards of land and displaced around 600 people. This was the only slum clearance before the First World War.

There was already the beginnings of a route in one very old narrow street, but all signs of Hercules Street were to disappear, along with its 40 fleshers and their killing yards.

The company was established in 1870, and it has boathouses and works to the south of the bridge too, as well as modern yards on the Berkshire bank.

Although photographs show a busy town, poverty in the slums prevailed, especially in the yards where the decline of the straw plait industry meant that women and children no longer contributed

The garden was planted out with trees and flowers men- tioned in the Bard's works.