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The first Blue Coat School opened in central Birmingham in 1724. It was a charity school whose pupils wore blue coats.

The first Blue Coat School opened in central Birmingham in 1724. It was a charity school whose pupils wore blue coats.

Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

The building has recently been restored, and now has a complete coat of lime plaster. If the castle is examined closely, the remnants of a plaster coat can also be discerned.

Note the man outside the hotel in trench-coat and hat - a typical fifties outfit.

The coat of arms above the High Street Gate is that of James ll.

The coat of arms above the North Gate is that of James ll. Parking is beginning to present a problem.

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

The Roughton Memorial gates are decorated with a coat of arms on the left-hand pillar and a brief history of the family's connection with Kettering on the right-hand pillar.

On Barclays Bank, left, is a sign for the Warminster Journal, which is still produced by Coates and Parker next door.

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Coats & Clark manufactured thread, and Brown & Poulson corn-flour.

The hardware store has had a pre-season facelift: a new awning, a coat of paint, and the relocation of the shop-sign from the ground to the second floor.

In this photograph, an early automobile chugs down the street, past a white-coated delivery boy pushing a handcart outside the inn.

The Fauconberg Arms was built in 1662, and carries the name and the coat of arms of Earl Fauconberg of the nearby Elizabethan Newburgh Priory.

In this predominately 19th-century street, it is the once-familiar that takes the eye: the delivery boy with his white coat and bicycle basket, and the unattended pram outside Mason's shop - in today's

The 16th-century family coat of arms is visible above the triple- based stone canopy which overhangs the main entrance.

This rather stern-looking gentleman wearing his best frock coat and gaiters is Isaac Waylen, Town Crier and School Attendance Officer between 1889 and 1911, who lived in St Martin's.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

Note the Baroque pediment and coat-of-arms over the entrance. Two jauntily-dressed young men pose for the camera.

The right-hand house, converted from an old barn, bears the coat of arms of Christopher Kenn over the doorway. The other buildings in this photograph are 16th- and 17th-century in date.

A top-hatted and frock-coated gentleman surveys the garden front of Haddon Hall.