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This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

It was burnt down by Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni in AD61, along with the rest of the town, as a symbol of Roman oppression.

On the right is a bathing machine, which would be trundled down into the shallows by the patient horse so that lady bathers could dip their toes with no fear of prying eyes.

Further down the hill, on the corner of Throwley Road, the cupola surmounting the Municipal Offices rises above the surrounding buildings. Beyond is the white stone frontage of the Gaumont Cinema.

The house was used as a school from 1921, but it burned down on 15 July 1951. Wakefield College now stands on the site.

The scaffolding is there because the rest of the building has just been pulled down.

In 1620 the castle was in such a run-down state that only the Eagle Tower and the King's Tower were roofed.

Its core collection, gathered together by Philpot's sisters at their home in Silver Street, was moved down the hill in stages, but the Philpot Museum did not open to the general public until

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down. The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.

down, and nobody appeared to be very interest- ed in it.

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes.

This view looks south down the main street towards the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas - we can see its 14th-century crossing tower (centre).

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

This is now an extremely busy road, and there is a host of traffic lights where five roads meet at the bottom of Lindum Hill, just about where the car is coming down the road.

gained a reputation for sorcery and evil deeds.Those who know the area treat these superstitious tales with a pinch of salt, but they do not deny that the quick changes in weather, which bring down

There was a lodge down in the village, and the estate of about 14 acres was laid out with attractive gardens and woods.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

For most of the century there had been daily steamers from Belfast to Bangor, and as the holiday traffic increased the County Down Railway took over the service.

The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.

In their place emerged Exchange Buildings, the town's first block of shops. However, by 1881 traders were complaining that Commercial Street was in a disgusting state.