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Behind the parked van on the left are the premises once occupied by W Good's drapery and millinery shop, next to the ornate facade of the mid-Victorian Town Hall with its clock.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

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

Derelict land on both sides of Broadway was screened by wooden hoardings and there were many complaints about this barren and unsightly part of town.

Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.

Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920.

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

Another son, also Sir William, took the name Herbert and was thought to be the most powerful man in Wales from 1465 until his death in 1469.

A few years later, piped water came to the villages and the well became redundant; by 1908 it had fallen into disrepair.

The site was cleared, and eventually a new church was built in 1956 in a style that would not look out of place in a new town.

Punting on the river in pre-war days. Near here is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

The arid area of grass and the 1950s housing (both family and sheltered) could, with a lightness of touch, have provided a more special entrance to the village from the north, under the shadow of

It is hard to believe that the main York to Beverley Road passes around the pond on the left. The village was built around the Manor House, later surrendered to Henry VIII after the dissolution.

The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920.

It was never a great success; part was leased to the BBC in 1934, and television broadcasts began in 1936.

Looking South to Marlborough Road The buildings to the left stood next to the Old Town Hall on the Market Square.

their property; this was immediately restored to them and the Tudor rose, the family emblem of the Tudors which shows the union of the red and white roses of Lancaster and York, was presented both

Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.

Dating from the 1500s (and possibly earlier), the half- timbered building on the left fronting both the High Street and Hickmans Lane has had a chequered history.

Nearby, just into the High Street, there is another building of similar antiquity, the Tribunal.

Another mystery regarding Stonehenge is that many of the stones had been dressed - there is no precedent for such work in Britain prior to Stonehenge.