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The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

ONE of the great joys of Exmouth is its beautiful setting, caught magnificently between the sea, the long Exe estuary and the wilder countryside of heath and cliff that so defines east Devon, offering

The single street leads down to the river. An Austin A30 is parked beside an Armstrong Siddeley. Originally these 18th-century red brick cottages were for estate workers.

There are grey and red brick buildings here. The cottages straight ahead were built in the 1860s. On the left is the Crown Inn, where a gruesome event took place in 1944.

Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks produced on the site, the house was the county's first true country house.

If one has time to glance westward, the castle is just visible from the M1 motorway as it heads northward into the Charnwood Forest.

This was one of the finest grammar schools in Leicestershire.

Situated on the navigable Ribble, Preston Docks opened in 1892.

Normal hours at Vauxhall were 46.5 in the factory and 40.5 in the office. They operated four staggered shifts, with half an hour for lunch and tea and two ten-minute tea breaks.

New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

It was an impressive occasion, as aldermen and councillors, and magistrates and mayors from the neighbouring towns joined the procession from the Town Hall.

In 1913 the Council received an offer of land skirting Woodcote Hall from Lord Rosebery as 'proof of my deep and abiding affection for Epsom'.

The small paddler nearest the camera is the 'Myleta', one of two steel-hulled single-deck sister ships built for the SER in 1891 by Samuda Bros, Poplar.

In 1895, the borough boundaries were extended to include the Great Salterns, and in 1904, the whole island was incorporated into the borough.

The Village Sweet Shop and Hailey's have gone, and this very pretty building, which hides a 17th-century timber frame behind its brick skin, is now a restaurant, to which has been added a not very beautiful

This amazing independent brick building is staggering by its sheer size, scale and style.

Waterhouse favoured the use of contrasting red brick and terracotta; as well as using it at Hutton Hall, he used it on his other two buildings in Guisborough, the Grammar School and Overbeck, a private

People do still come to Exmouth for longer holidays, but the town does not really have the old August high season any more, with the consequent sad loss of some of the older hotels.

The Great Western Railway ordered two fast triple-expansion steamers, costing £55,000 each, from the Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, for the Weymouth-Jersey summer service.

To the right of the roundabout is the entrance to Denbies Estate, England's largest family-owned vineyard.