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G Sutton, Hosier & Glover is first on the left, then the County Hair Dressing Saloons.

The mill was one of the two main Hertfordshire paper works (the other was at Nash and Apsley Mills in the west of the county), but it fell into decline and is now a private residence.

They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

'FX' were Dorset's first letters, starting with FX100, but 'BF' had been allocated to the county.

Another impressive residence, High Hall, was demolished in 1869, and was later rebuilt before passing to the ownership of the County Council in 1951.

The arrival of BBC Three Counties Radio in Luton meant that a daily paper was no longer feasible; covering Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire, it makes Luton a reference point for a wide area

Webbs had branches in ten other towns, so they could safely claim to be 'The Midland Counties Outfitter'. The Old White Horse (right) would become Burton Menswear in 1962.

As so often happens in the county, the quality of the village has gone unsung, with the brook, its major natural asset, now being forced between crazy-paved walls instead of gently enhanced - a pity

t was said by many that 'Dorking lime is undoubtedly one of the finest quality of limestone in the county, if not England', and it was claimed that the chalk burnt into lime at Dorking was sought

The village stands on the border with the neighbouring county of Sussex. It occupies rising ground and offers fine views across the Weald.

It was owned by Richardson Sons and Owens, whose extensive mills and factories were at Bessbrook in County Armagh.

So Essex can be seen as a county where the normal seems abnormal; where ordinariness rubs shoulders with surprises.

The premises were next occupied by the Capital and Counties Bank Ltd until 1924.

In the 1950s, Middlesex County Council planners were asked to draw up a plan for renovation of the embankment and Church Street area by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.

'Henley, a market town, and one of the neatest, cleanest, and most respectable in the County ... is exceedingly pleasantly situated on the west side of the river Thames'.

Five years later Glasgow was elevated to become the County of the City of Glasgow, and thereafter the Lord Provost became ex officio Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant, entitled from 1912 onwards to

In 1948 the building became Fulwood and Caldy Comprehensive School, which later merged with Ingol and Lightfoot Primary School to become the Harris County Primary School.

According to the Archaeological and Historic Buildings Record of Hampshire County Council, some of these flints date from the Palaeolithic period (500,000 BC to 10,000 BC).

The River Lagan flows within a few miles of the huge Lough Neagh, which is bordered by four Ulster counties; a lot of work was done to make the river able to take barges, with a link to the lough.

Most of the Cotswolds, the UK's largest designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, rests within the county bound- ary.

In Great Oaks, a new fire station was officially opened in 1962 by Alderman G F Chaplin, CBE, JP, Chairman of Essex County Council; it took two years to build and cost about £62,000.

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

In 1890, a newly appointed County Council public health inspector reported on 'the rush of offensive liquid and solid matter from Rea's tannery', and 'liquid filth of Godalming's slaughterhouses'

Billericay UDC and Essex County Council made a unique petition to the government to be designated a New Town, and Basildon was born.