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In Saxon days the name of this place was Wribbenhall. The Normans, impressed with its setting, renamed it Beaulieu, 'the beautiful place'.

Wesley's Cottage, on the north side of the High Street to the west of the Town Hall, where the founding preacher of Methodism stayed on the night of 12-13 October 1774.

The Old Quay Swing Bridge opens by pivoting on the pier on the left hand side of the canal.

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

All the men in this photograph are wearing suits, so it is no wonder that the Fifty Shilling Tailor did a lot of business, It was the accepted mode of dress, particularly for work.

There have been race meetings in Doncaster since 1600, but it was the St Leger of 1776 that put the town on the racing calendar.

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

The River Trent is navigable for some 93 miles, and plays a vital role in linking the waterways of the North East with those of the Midlands.

To the north-east of Allenheads beyond Nookton Fell lies the village of Blanchland. It was here in 1165 that an Abbey Church was founded by the Praemonstratensian Order of monks.

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 or to pull down and rebuild.

This is a fine view of Holy Cross Church with the Abbey Buildings on the left. The Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Institute is on the right.

Sixty years and two world wars on from the photograph of 1906, the late 18th-century house on Church Hill has been demolished and replaced by the War Memorial Building, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in

A hundred years after this photograph was taken, there appears to have been little change to the overall shape of the town, for Ilkley today retains the charm of the Wharfe Valley and the splendour of

The memorial stone was set up on 3 June 1879; tea was served in the body of the chapel, while a choir of 200 children sang from the gallery. The building opened for worship on 15 October 1879.

Sheffield's lowly position in the league table of provincial shopping centres, 18th in the most recent study (December 2003) and far behind regional rivals Manchester (third), Nottingham (fifth

The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village.

In 1955, the agitated ghost of Penn Assheton Curzon probably hovered over the site of Gopsal Park, the splendid house he inherited in 1773, unforgivably demolished in 1951.

There exists at least one account that states that the plague reached Newark in the summer of 1665, said to have been brought to the town in contaminated patterns of woollen cloths delivered to a draper

This view of the parish church is from the north-west.

This is not so much of a square as a roundabout these days. There is no car parking today, but a busy road junction with a cannon in the centre.

Dominating this area of the town is St Mary's Church.

It is difficult to cross this wide, breezy promenade without thinking of him. Sailor, circumnavigator, mayor, MP, bowls player, scourge of the Spanish – he crammed a lot into his 51 years.

The show of horses and horned cattle was exceedingly great. Cattle sold quick and at liberal prices.

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