Search Results

Ilfracombe's growth was helped by the building of the Barnstaple turnpike and a new pier, but neglect of other amenities led to a cholera epidemic, which swept the town in 1849.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Cark was a busy mill town. The bridge here spans the River Eea, which powered the mill close by.

By the close of the century, the town had attracted many of the wealthiest industrialists and shipping magnates intent on escaping an overcrowded Cardiff.

When it was completed in 1794, St Peter's Church was on the very edge of the built-up area of the town.

Dalgleish Way is part of the later 1950s and early 1960s village expansion.

Further west and more in Aldwick than Bognor is Arthur's Home, a convalescent home built in the 1890s, one of many. It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home.

What is now a short arm and extensive marina moorings was once the main line of the Oxford Canal.

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

Church Street, beyond Fishergate and the Town Hall, was a busy shopping area for the Fylde country all around.

The Butter Cross was built in 1689, after the fire of the previous year which destroyed much of the town.

On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

Its monumentalising face-lift in 1905-6 to provide municipal headquarters and premises for the town's first public library and museum courted controversy.

This is a comparatively modern scene in the High Street, showing two-way traffic and a variety of cars.

It's amazing to think that Halton is now the centre of the modern town once more; history has turned full circle.

The barracks and headquarters of the Green Howards closed in the 1920s, and the buildings were then used as an approved school.

Cleobury, pronounced Clibbery, was once a stronghold of the powerful Mortimer family; they also owned castles in, for example, Ludlow, Wigmore and Chirk.

Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's. The swinging AA sign has gone, replaced by one for the sports unit.

The Town Hall, built in 1766 by William Chambers and paid for by the Duke of Marlborough, has a prominent site overlooking the Market Place.

Bolton Road was the first paved road laid in Port Sunlight, and W H Lever named it after his home town as a reminder of his roots.

Between the wars the population of Billingham rocketed as the works was expanded for the production of methanol, chemical fertilisers, and petrochemicals.

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

This area has changed quite a lot, and has adapted to the extra traffic that has occurred during the past fifty years.