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This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.

The cemetery reportedly has a gravestone dedicated to a lady described as 'a weak and sinful worm, the vilest of her race'!

In 1956 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone opened a Methodist church in Langdon Hills, and in the following year the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited Kingswood Junior School, officially opened

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

Up to 20 stables ran their horses on the gallops at Six Mile Hill.

Also here is Richard Burberry, a member of the famous Burberry raincoat family.

By the mid 1950s much had changed, and the front of the Angel and Royal Hotel indicates the reason (see G43032 and G43099).

Meanwhile down in the town, away from the lush gardens and villas of Amersham Hill, the furniture industry was modernising into the factory system.

Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street

Sheffield in the Victorian period also saw a very large expansion of its housing stock not only to house the rapidly growing number of workers in the light and heavy steel industries but also to

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

Bedford truck designs became the basis for a new breed of army vehicles; the QL made history as the company's first 4 x 4.

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

We see an operative cinema, but only a closed Georgian Theatre, and there is no hint of the important racehorse-training tradition.

It has been a pleasure to select these wonderful images from the Frith archives to relate some of the story of the Norfolk coast.

When the Second World War broke out she was exempt from military service because she worked in a bank, taking the place of men who had enlisted.

In 1982 he surfaced again, unearthed by construction workers digging foundations for the new city of Milton Keynes. When the Icthyosaurus was found, it still had 75% of its skeleton.

Over a large part of the area, modern toilets were unknown; cesspits and earth closets were common. Such rural conditions could be quite enjoyable in the dry, summer months.

There is but sparse evidence of Anglo- Saxon life in the city area.

Tourism in the area has, rightly, not been encouraged; the balance of nature is too fragile. To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

Tourism in the area has, rightly, not been encouraged; the balance of nature is too fragile. To the east of the town are similar marshes at the King's Pool, off North Walls.

Over the years there have been a variety of spellings of the name Hemel Hempstead.

of the 20th century.

When Lord Ashley married Harriet Chichester, the only surviving child and heiress of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, his father may have made it plain that if he was to become an Irish landlord he would