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Portmadoc handled slate traffic from both south Caernarvon and north Merioneth; the schooners were able to call upon the services of a tug for towing either in or out of the harbour.

The milestone is known to the locals as 'the pineapple'; it is inscribed with names and mileages from Holt to Norfolk's principal towns.

The area caught the attention of both William Wordsworth, who visited the village and featured it in a poem, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote Come into the Garden, Maud at Brancepeth.

Another view of the south front shows the extent of the alterations and extensions carried out by Richard Chaloner and his wife Margaret, who was also instrumental in the laying out of the

The road on the right leads to the church, dedicated to St Mary and built between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

It is interesting that the boatman is using an oar on the starboard side, and is watching the effect on the craft as the boy standing with both hands on the port oar takes the strain on the rowlock.

A splendid open car heads north, driving in the middle of the road. The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

One of the most important cross- village links, Gores Lane appears under one guise or another on all the oldest maps of Formby.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.

This is another view of this splendid Norman castle, built on the site of a Romano-British fortress by Gerald de Windsor as a wooden stronghold.

Another bandstand survived, providing concerts and dancing (old time and folk) in the 1950s and 60s; it still provides a weekly concert in summer.

Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

Both the town centre and the High Street in general face increasing competition in the form of 'out of town' shopping, following the creation of the retail park.

The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.

1498-1570), another wealthy landowner and vice-Admiral of the Crown. The trouble started over the cargo of a French merchant ship wrecked on Oxwich Point.

The single street leads down to the river. An Austin A30 is parked beside an Armstrong Siddeley. Originally these 18th-century red brick cottages were for estate workers.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

This old gateway in the 19th century gave access to the Taylors Arms, the building half-way up on the left, which was destroyed by fire in 1930.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

Here we have another view of the village, with its cottages and barns built in its local sandstone.

The white monument is the memorial to the fishermen Abram and Greenall, who lost their lives trying to save another fisherman.

While the development of the railway network brought an ever-increasing number of day-trippers to the seaside, by the late-Victorian period the railway was also conveying an increasing number of

The noted firm of Wiggins, Teape & Co of Dover took over the business in 1930 but closed it down two years later.

The railway line was on the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway, which had opened in 1849.