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The Inman Line was one of the principal players on the North Atlantic service, holding mail contracts for Liverpool to New York and Liverpool to Halifax.

To save time, an off-the-shelf Laird's design was chosen; the three-ship deal cost the GWR £100,000.

The 1920s were also when car dealerships were established at various locations throughout the town.

DORSET'S RURAL HEARTLAND is best explored on foot, for walking the lanes and paths which thread from village to village is the only way to seek out the scenes captured at a vital time in their history

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.

The house belonged to the Crown, but was always leased to tenants.

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

Beyond the Red Lion (left), in the 1950s still a hotel, the tall many-chimneyed buildings of 1901 flank Corporation Street, the road cut in 1900 and originally intended as the site for council offices

The statues of Raphael and Michelangelo stand on the entrance steps to the Walker Art Gallery in William Brown Street.

In 1237 the manors of Carleton, Langwathy, Scotby, Sowerby and Penrith were granted to Alexander II.

It could be said that the life of Sir William Hillary (1771-1847) was the stuff of ripping yarns.

THE TITLE of this chapter was the tribute paid to Sheffield by Charles Burlington in 'The Modern Universal British Traveller' in 1779.

It was especially popular in the days before cheap rail tickets to the seaside became available.

his street forms the left fork of the junctions of the three main streets, and is the quietest of the three. On the corner stands the Bull's Head public house.

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'.

By the mid 1950s much had changed, and the front of the Angel and Royal Hotel indicates the reason (see G43032 and G43099).

boy watches the cameraman at work.

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

Prestbury was the mother church of Macclesfield.

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

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

Joseph Cranstone formed the Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1845 and acted as its superintendent for 33 years.

The oldest cottages are based on what is known as a 'cross passage' design, whereby a passage runs straight from front to back door, dividing the house.