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Richard Turner, one of the temperance leaders, was born in Bilsborrow. Speaking at Preston Cockpit, he inadvertently invented the word 'teetotal'—Dicky stammered!

The Council Offices are on the right, bearing a datestone of 1913. Before that date, meetings of the Garstang Rural District Council were held at the King's Arms Hotel.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

A policeman is perhaps waiting to direct the vehicles and protect the pedestrians, unaware as they seem of the approaching car.

Around 1960 redevelopment started in New Street with the demolition of the old police station. This view shows its replacement in the functional style of the day.

Here we see several more of the local ironstone cottages with their well kept and productive gardens. There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

The present Layston church, the original parish church for Buntingford, was constructed on the site of an earlier building in the 13th century, and additions were built in the 15th century.

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

The road through Greenodd is part of the 1820 turnpike route from Lancaster to Kirkby Ireleth, so in the coaching era Greenodd was a very busy place.

Bram Stoker, the author of 'Dracula', stayed in Royal Crescent in 1890; he imagined his heroine, Mina, running after the sleep- walking Lucy as she went 'along North Terrace and down the

The pretty ironstone village, once a market town, descends the lower slopes of the ridge along the Uppingham Road.

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

This excellent view captures the eastward expansion of the town in the late 19th century very well.

His farce 'Blott on the Landscape' had its television debut in 1985, with ironical timing, as the northern arm of Bridport bypass was cutting its way across meadows to the east.

This view looks north up Church Street with No 15 on the left, a medieval house with a good crown post roof, and on the right the toy shop with the evocative names of makes of toy on its facade is now

The Checker and its associated ranges probably survived because they were close to the mill stream and the industrial heart of the medieval town with its watermill, and thus they soon found alternative

It is also and probably more correctly called the County Hall, as Abingdon sought to be the county town of Berkshire until the mid 19th century.

Here we see a section of the canal at Greenberfield Locks, just before it enters the town.This is the highest point that the canal reaches.The revival in pleasure boats on the canals has brought back

Wareham St Martin's (right), standing on King Alfred's Town Walls, is Dorset's earliest complete church. Anglo-Saxon arcading was replaced by Norman arches in the 12th century.

It is even said that it was used for the building of the docks in New York, the stone originally travelling there as ballast in sailing ships.

The library is to be found in Boltro Road, which leads off Muster Green towards the railway station.

His model village provided all the essential living amenities, and for recreation he provided a spacious park on the opposite side of the river and canal.

Admiral George Anson, born here in 1697, commanded the HMS 'Centurion' on a voyage around the world between 1740 and 1744.

We can see the 15th-century tower of St George's church on the horizon (left). This was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Gilbert Scott in 1858 after a major fire five years earlier.