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In 1845, when the houses were being completed, the square was their private garden, and as the people moved in they got a key.

The scene has changed much since the days of Richard Ansdell RA, when he ordered his house Starr Hills to be built, and this was a wild and lonely area of marram grass covered sandhills.

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and she gave some of the money back to pay for the art gallery it was to house.

The Market Square, which here takes a triangular form, is surrounded by modest, attractive, mainly 18th-century houses, apart from the Grammar School, which, to some extent, raises the scale.

The 17th-century screen bears the Royal arms of James I and those of the Fortescue family, lords of the manor, whose 15th-century manor house rose behind the church.

These have included the enlargement of the Tesco store near the bypass, the reconstruction of the road bridge over Hen Brook in St Mary's Street, and a large new housing complex and marina on

This view shows the entrance to the cloisters, now housing the gift shop and cloister restaurant. The letter box beneath the lamp post has gone.

renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced a much older house

Further along, the grocer's is an early 18th-century house of 2½ storeys with quoins. There follow more 18th-century buildings where the façades usually conceal much older rem- nants.

Custody facilities were also bad and the 'house of correction' attracted complaints of severe overcrowding. However, it took 20 years before the first police station was built, in Woodgate.

, on the other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal house

But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for

The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall. The Sudell family can be traced back to the reign of Edward VI. They owned land in Blackburn and out at Oozebooth.

The tower, with its clock and cupola, marks a market house and assembly rooms, which have a history of their own.

The building with the tower, in the top left corner, is 'V' Block, and it housed Styling, Design, Prototype Build, and running shop for both cars and trucks; it was known within the company as 'Experimental

Houses, known as the Maltings, were built in the 1980s on the site of the Linolite factory.

ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.

in Muster House, fronting on to Muster Green. It then moved along Muster Green to The Yews on the corner of Muster Green and Boltro Road.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

The appliances are housed in a five-bay single- storey block, which adjoins an extended two-storey wing and accommodates the watch room, offices, mess room, kitchen, and recreation rooms.

These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No 28 High Street of 1897, and many houses

The cost of the land was £251,177 for 375 acres, but some of that was set aside for housing.

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

A large purpose-built market house was opened in 1825.