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At the time this photograph was taken, the bend in the road was a notorious accident black spot: here heavily laden lorries often came to grief on the long descent down Blakeney Hill into the village

The Thames and Severn Canal came this way, and the route of the old towpath can still be walked for considerable sections; but it is the pits left by extensive gravel extraction that have been

The main employer was Addis, the brush manufacturers, who came to Hertford in the 1920s when they took over the premises of the Hertford Steam Laundry Company.

Further alterations were made by the Wyatt family when it came into their possession in 1493, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the father of the English sonnet, was born here in 1503.

The big house (the castle) was not yet begun, and it came without a long drive.

Hameline de Balun established the first castle here between 1085 and 1138, and it later came into the ownership of William de Braose.

This essentially industrial village dating from the 17th and 18th centuries was on a pack horse route, but long before that Bronze Age traders came through.

GMC executives came over from the US to get work back to normal after the war.

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.

It then moved to Silver Street, and finally came to rest here in 1904.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.

An additional claim to fame is the fact that the then HRH Princess Elizabeth and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh spent part of their honeymoon here in 1947.

Motor transport came along with smoother roads, and enabled more journeys to the towns.

An additional claim to fame is that the-then HRH Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh spent part of their honeymoon here in 1947.

Up to seven thousand a year came to devour a well-earned tea in one or other of the local hostelries, before returning to the city.

Cistercian monks came from prosperous Fountains Abbey in 1148 to found Sawley, which is three miles from Clitheroe and by the river Ribble.

Hundreds of locals came to see it, and 'tarmacadam' became a huge success.This is the Shirburne's village; it was started by the family to house estate workers, and servants from nearby Stonyhurst,

This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.

Construction began in 1853 and was finished in 1855, although the viaduct only came into service a year and half later.

Their ships came onto the route in 1894, leaving Belfast at the 'Bangor Jetty' near Queens Bridge.

To the right is part of Little Germany, a warehouse complex built by German traders who came to the city as cloth merchants in the 1820s and after the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

The brewery chimney came down in 1959, and the remaining building became the site of the bus station.

A bus service came in 1922, and at the end of the road on the right, the Hippodrome Cinema entertained the town from 1929 until June 1962.