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The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually

Almost opposite Foresters Cottages is the headquarters of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, and members' cars often visit the village.

Newnham Parade, built in the early 1960s on the site of the old Triangle Cafe (which had been demolished in 1960), was a favourite meeting place for locals and travellers from London to Ware.

Over Easter 1934, there was an epidemic of influenza, measles and chicken pox.

While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late

The mid 19th-century houses are fairly run-of-the-mill, but had the cameraman turned round he could have photographed a fairly new arrival on the Hill.

The Plaiting School in the village employed village ladies and children who supplemented the low agricultural wages by weaving strips of straw, called plait, to the hat-making trade in Luton.

Between 1914 and 1920 there had been huge increases in the prices of even the most basic of foodstuffs.

This photograph shows the splendid elevation of a building which never got the formal square it deserved.

It soon became a destination for those who wanted to enjoy a spot which seems to make the mouth of Belfast Lough its own.

The little girl dragging her feet on the unmade roadway in front of the camera would be taking her life in her hands were she to attempt such a casual progress today, when modern traffic thunders up this

The harbour was built owing to the foresight of the Reverend Alban Gwynne following the enabling 1807 Harbour Act, and he spent his wife's inheritance building the planned Georgian town to go with it.

It is one of three attractive inns, which must add to the popularity of the village. The weather is not so harsh here, as the area is protected by Longridge Fell.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

One suspects that these groups of children, with one accompanying nursemaid, seated on the benches and the steps of the canopied bandstand, have been induced to pose by the photographer, to complement

Water has always featured large in this village at the southern end of the Churn.

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

Now in the motor age, the Square is less animated. The Queen's Hotel has lost its dominant sign, but the jeweller's shop is still functioning.

This building stands at the northern end of The Parade; it was built in 1926 on the site of a former coaching inn, the Pengwern Arms, which had to be demolished in 1885 following storm damage.

The lake was built at a cost of £2,500; it was due to open on 14 October 1899, but severe weather intervened, and the opening was cancelled for one week.

Ullenhall has had its share of notorious residents, including a 19th-century forger called William Booth, who was also accused of his brother's murder.

The main change is that the large tree has been replaced by a pub sign, which now forms the centrepiece of a large round traffic island incorporating an attractive floral feature.

Barkway spanned the main route from London to Cambridge, and it was only the coming of the railways in the 1850s that transformed it into a countryside backwater.

The work of building the cathedral can be attributed to several distinct periods.