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Healey Dell has been an attraction of a different type for much longer, probably since Anglo-Saxon times.

Until just a few years ago the abattoir had its premises behind the pub, and here cattle were slaughtered on a regular basis.

The cemetery reportedly has a gravestone dedicated to a lady described as 'a weak and sinful worm, the vilest of her race'!

boy watches the cameraman at work.

Looking up towards St Mary's church.

One of the knights has bright blue eyes inside his helmet - a shock for the unsuspecting restorer on the scaffolding, peering in!

The road at this junction has traffic going in both directions, unlike today, when as part of the High Street one-way system the traffic now flows towards the market cross.

He commissioned the renowned Victorian architect, Alfred Waterhouse (who designed the Natural History Museum in London) to design a new mansion, Hutton Hall, which was completed in 1867; it replaced

They felt a need to fill 'The Surrey wilderness', an area of under-representation for Methodism, and significant funding came from a fund set up by Hugh Price Hughes: unfortunately, he died before

A casualty station was set up there during the air raids on Cowes on the night of 4 and 5 May 1942.

I GOT up at 6 o'clock as the sun was rising behind the Tors.

This is the impressive south front with its conservatory and orangery.

Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford.

Prize money of 300 guineas was announced for a competition in 1866 to design and lay out an area for 'the delight and pleasure of the public'.

Boots the Chemists were still next door to the hotel, but not for long: they were soon to move further along the High Street as Grantham's shopping centre gravitated towards St Peter's Hill, following

The Highland clearances brought a fresh influx, and to this day there are more Gaelic speakers in Glasgow than in the Highlands and Islands.

This similar view of the village gives a closer impression of the mission house and the row of managers' houses (right).

The brick gateway, with its barely discernible royal cipher, is all that remains.

That building, now Stokers' furniture store, was originally only one storey; in 1853 an upper floor was added at the cost of £1,007.

In the late 1870s the Grammar School boys had lost a corner of their cricket field when a new area was being laid out for the weekly market.

There is a local legend telling how Payn de Turberville acquired the castle following the Norman conquest of Glamorgan.

This was probably a pele tower, and might well have been the only stone building of any substance in Penrith at the time.

The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north.

Prehistoric Cams Most people enjoying a round of golf on the Cams Hall Estate today are probably unaware of the existence of the 429 pieces of worked flint that were recovered during topsoil stripping