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Pigot and Co's National Commercial Directory, published in 1830, gives an interesting snapshot of the town just before its rapid decline (the building of the Great Western Railway killed both the

of the road.

supplies of various kinds to the London market.'

Seaton is situated on Rutland's south- eastern edge, about half a mile from its border with Northamptonshire, overlooking the Welland Valley.

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

The foundation stone of the Victoria Jubilee Technical School was laid in July 1895; the purpose of the School was to give relief to the over-full Harris Institute.

In early 20th century guides, walkers were advised to leave the train at Port St Mary and go by way of the Chasms and Spanish Head to Port Erin..

Here the 1903 widening of the bridge has just been completed, hence the pristine stonework.

At this time boys were often in their teens before they got a pair of long trousers. Jeans were unheard of, and the design of children's clothes had hardly changed for thirty years.

Founded in the late 1100s, St Mary's was re-roofed in oak at the beginning of the 16th century. Pictured here is the east window, three lights with quatrefoils in roundels above each one.

The 35ft statue of Queen Victoria, designed by the architect J S Gibson and the sculptor H C Fehr, dominated the centre of the new city square following its unveiling by the Prince of Wales on 12 May

Within the short span of 40 years (1220AD-1260AD) the Cathedral was built uniquely in one Gothic style, Early English.

The Collegiate Church built in 1851 was consecrated as the Episcopal Cathedral of Argyll and the Isles in 1876.

Prince Charles Edward Stuart landed at Glenfinnan on 19 August 1745. Here, with a few loyal retainers, Prince Charles waited for the clans.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

William the Conqueror, having beaten and killed the Anglo-Danish King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066, vowed to found an abbey on the site of the great battle, known as the Battle of Hastings.

Buckets and spades, a splash and a paddle are the order of the day in this picture.

Beer was the birthplace in 1788 of the smuggler Jack Rattenbury, who lived a life of adventure landing untaxed cargoes along much of the Devon coast.

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

By the end of the Great War the town had lost many of its young men—they had marched away past the Steamer Hotel along Dock Street to the railway station.

Many Fylde inns were named 'Horns', presumably harking back to the days when herds of deer roamed here. Some inns of that name sported splendid antlers as inn signs, as at Goosnargh.

This 16th-century building with an 18th-century façade was built after 1564 on the site of St Mary's Guildhall. Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

Here is the 11th-century church of All Saints built by the Flemish architect Gilbert de Gant (d1094), a nephew of William the Conqueror.

The 66 ton Logan Rock was forcibly dislodged in 1824 by a Lt Goldsmith and the crew of the Revenue Cutter 'Nimble'.