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In the opposite corner is the village school founded by the gift of £180 from a tailor, James Thistleton.

Overton is situated near the Lune Estuary; it is said that a terrace on the main village street uses stone that came from Cockersand Abbey. Of the abbey, only the chapterhouse remains.

All this came to an end with a disastrous fire, and the site is now a pub garden to the Nag's Head with a children's playground.

Then along came Alderman Richard Cobden. It was he who brought purpose back into Bright's life when he reminded him that hundreds of people were dying of starvation due to the iniquitous Corn Laws.

The stone came from a quarry on the estate's land. The house was divided into three parts in 1919, and is now used as offices by a major building company.

Trade here came from corn milling, spinning and weaving, and paper manufacture. Beck Isle Cottage was once the home of the village laundry maid.

At first they were council houses, and later private developers came in.

The first links with the Raleigh family, from which the village now takes the second part of its name, came in 1346 when Peter de Raleghe owned certain manorial rights.

He came across references to it in a text dated 1125. Excavations outside revealed the walls, and repairs revealed the carvings.

It is famed for a carved pillar featuring entwined ribbands.

In 1860 the house was occupied by George and Elizabeth Torr, and by 1879 it was famed for its gardens and its annual display of azaleas, but in the mid 1920s it was turned into a school for girls.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones. Fortunately, Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame!)

General Shubrick's clock over the door came from the Round House when the Andover Turnpike Trust was wound up.

The tramway from Bradford came here in 1914, but the first road accident happened years earlier in 1900. A 10mph speed limit was imposed in 1903.

Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on the finished

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

Built in the 1780s as the Miners` Arms, this premises changed its name to the Wizard Inn in 1843.

Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland, the origins of the cat are said to go way back in time, and no-one knows where the story of the grinning cat, now always associated with Cheshire, originally came

Cookes next door was a printer and stationer selling postcards, and then came A G Metcalfe, a baker with café, and R S Corner, a confectioner.

'Locomotion' was one of the stars of the S&DR centenary celebrations in 1925, though the old girl was not quite herself; her power came from a hidden petrol engine, and the smoke from her chimney was burning

With the colliery came rows of miners' housing, such as those in Stephenson Street, Bessemer Street, Rennie Street, Davy Street, and Newton Street.

The railway came to Elland before Halifax: it was on the Manchester to Leeds line from 1839.

The railway came in 1848, and by 1890 the town had links with Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds, giving fast access to major trade markets.