Search Results

Knowsley is the home of the Stanley family, and is one of the most imposing of the large houses around Liverpool.

The church, whose foundation stone was laid on 19 June 1888 by Joseph Wilcox, was built to replace the Old Meeting House of 1715.

On the south side is London House, the store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover & Son. Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop (centre).

It shows Westgate, the main thoroughfare of the town centre, and leading off to the left is Westgate Road, opened up in 1876 on the site of the former driveway to Sunnyfield House, a prominent private

Today there are moorings along the river bank, and housing development has completely swamped the old village.

The houses past Burr Meadow and the Windmill pub (left) are known locally as the Three Bears - Little Bear, Middle Bear (Ivy Cottage) and Big Bear (Standon House).

These impressive caves, their interiors hewn out of the limestone rock, were later to be used to house the wartime 'bouncing bomb'.

Originally built in 1760 as a market house, the courthouse, which stands in the centre of the square, was enlarged in 1810.

This view of the church is taken from South Church Street, probably within the garden of what is now the house 'Braeside'.

Alongside this inn was an old stone house dated 1705, which became the Parish Room in 1955.

When this photograph was taken, the richly pargetted Ancient House, which dates back to medieval times, was occupied by Fred Pawsey, selling books and stationery.

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

Here we see North's House (centre), and Polly Miller's (left) - both named after fondly remembered former

The first post office was in the Shambles in Lancaster Road – it was simply a small room connected with a dwelling house, and quickly proved inadequate.

The thatched roof and plastered walls of the Chantry House typify the construction of the houses and cottages in Ashwell. Even the barn (left, behind the delivery van) is thatched.

Today most of this area is covered by housing, part of the expansion of the town since the mid 1970s. On the left is Tuns Passage.

From the bowling green we can just see the High School and the houses on Fence Avenue through the trees on the right.

Some still exist, but many houses have been replaced by new buildings.

Here the ferryman is carrying guests from the Boat House Inn across the river.

The Golden Anchor was still to be found next to Raikes' house in 1912; however, Henry Playfair was yet to take up residence at Number 19.

The building now houses the famous Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages.

Houses from different eras mix well around the greens. Adjoining the village today, a huge distribution centre is developing on the former air crew training base.

In the 19th century the court housed a brewery, a malt-house store and a factory producing Windsor chairs.

These red brick terraces were built to house the employees of hosiery and shoe manufacturers at the turn of the century.