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The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

Built in the 1780s as the Miners` Arms, this premises changed its name to the Wizard Inn in 1843.

Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland, the origins of the cat are said to go way back in time, and no-one knows where the story of the grinning cat, now always associated with Cheshire, originally came

Cookes next door was a printer and stationer selling postcards, and then came A G Metcalfe, a baker with café, and R S Corner, a confectioner.

'Locomotion' was one of the stars of the S&DR centenary celebrations in 1925, though the old girl was not quite herself; her power came from a hidden petrol engine, and the smoke from her chimney was burning

With the colliery came rows of miners' housing, such as those in Stephenson Street, Bessemer Street, Rennie Street, Davy Street, and Newton Street.

The railway came to Elland before Halifax: it was on the Manchester to Leeds line from 1839.

The railway came in 1848, and by 1890 the town had links with Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds, giving fast access to major trade markets.

This type of elegant windmill came into its own during the spring and autumn when the marshes were often full of flood water; during this time it was literally 'all hands to the pump' to ensure the safety

The stone came from a quarry on the estate's land. The house was divided into three parts in 1919, and is now used as offices by a major building company.

In the decades following the First World War, Exmouth reached the heights of its fame as a holiday resort, thanks to the greater mobility offered by railway trains and motor vehicles

The latter write his poem 'Lamia' here, while Longfellow wrote a verse in praise of the ferruginous spring which issues out of the Chine, whose waters health-conscious visitors came to sample

Laleham was a tiny village when Dr Thomas Arnold, soon to be the formidable headmaster of Rugby School, came to live here in Regency times.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

Butter was cut from a huge slab, sugar was weighed into stiff blue bags and biscuits also came loose - weighed out from large square tins.

The impressive lozenge-shaped stone came from a surface outcrop of sarsen stones (the word sarsen derives from Saracen, and means stranger) which can be found on the Marlborough Downs about two miles away

In fact, Disley has always been a roadside settlement: its existence goes back to a time when a Roman road came through here.

A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

They take place around the war memorial (left, in front of the white building); farmers, merchants and millers came from all areas of Norfolk.

Early visitors came on horseback but a motor train (1905) brought passengers from Prestatyn for 3d.This picture must be one of the best photographs, clearly showing the falls and the well-kept setting

Samuel Pepys studied here between 1650 and 1653, and on his death in 1703 his library came here, including the original manuscript volumes of his famous diaries.

This was the main route through the town until the by-pass came into being.