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with a brass plate on it on which the following was inscribed: 'Whoso is hungry, and lists well to eat, Let him come to Sprotbrough, for his meat, And for a night and for a day, His horse shall have both

Taken a few years after photograph 34748, this splendid view shows both flight and boats. The furthest boat is a steam-powered tug, which will move the immaculate coal-laden barge.

brass plate on it on which the following was inscribed: 'Whoso is hungry, and lists well to eat, Let him come to Sprotbrough, for his meat,And for a night and for a day, His horse shall have both

Both thrive to the present day. The first hotel, built about 1851, still stands to the east of the old railway station, and is used by British Rail as offices.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

The Ulverston Canal was opened in 1796 to connect the town with the Leven Estuary, and to enable trade, both exports and imports, to be increased.

The bypass on the south side of town was opened in 1926; it was much needed to relieve the narrow streets of both local china clay and through traffic.

The prosperity of the North Wales coastline grew steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Here we see another reconstructed church, this time the responsibility of the Luftwaffe.

Another view of Slapton Sands, this time looking north. The sea wall is a little more substantial today, otherwise the view is unchanged.

On the right is a half-timbered building that houses a bank.

Another harvest from the fen was buckthorn, vital for charcoal, which was used in making explosive fuses during the Second World War.

King John ordered new kitchens to be built both here and at Marlborough. 'In each kitchen shall be made a hearth for the cooking of two or three oxen'.

Here on the left is the old post office before it moved to the Green. The library beside it has now expanded to fill the whole building.

At the opening of the first motorway bridge thirty years earlier, Enoch Williams was reported to have said to an interviewer that traffic would increase to such an extent that another bridge would

Both are long gone, although smaller firms and businesses occupy those same sites today.

The Jew’s House is another of Lincoln’s surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

On the Buckinghamshire bank (since 1974 in Berkshire) Henry VI's great foundation, Eton College, has rendered this another 'company town'.

Another absentee rector put in a total of just six months' work during an incumbency lasting eight years; he claimed he was suffering from work-related stress.

More had to give both Melplash and his favourite daughter to Lord Paulet, who interceded with the king on his behalf in search of a pardon.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell. Another famous son of the town was J Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

The earliest parts of the castle are the hall and a small tower, both dating from the 12th century.

Yet it was intermittent, and well into the 19th century there were fields on both sides of the road, while the postal address was 'near Worcester'.

The two buildings dominating this view of the east side of Foregate Street have both been converted to other purposes.