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Sir Henry Price and the Fifty Shilling Tailors A branch of the Fifty Shilling Tailors stands on the right of the parade of shops in this photograph.

Although the Gothic style flint and Bath stone cruciform church was completed in 1886, it was not consecrated until 1888 due to strong and often bitter opposition from the rector of Broadwater and

The Infirmary was opened in 1870, funded with the money left by Edmund Harris, and in 1884 a Children's Ward had been opened.

The Harris Orphanage opened in 1888 after £100,000 was set aside by the Trustees of the Harris Estate to build and equip such an establishment.

Kingstown was the Irish terminal of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Co, who successfully operated the mail service between Holyhead and Dublin for several decades.

The charter was signed on 11 October 1440, and he laid the foundation stone on Passion Sunday 1441. Thomas Bekynton celebrated his first mass as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 13 October 1443.

The sands are still crowded but postwar society has brought a marked change to our seaside resorts.

Gloucester has the gravitas befitting a city that has been an important crossing point on the Severn since time long gone, and has played a significant role in the drama of British history for

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting. Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.

Joseph Cranstone's iron works produced two fire engines, one for the Volunteer Fire Brigade and the other for the Phoenix Assurance Company.

Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane. That was certainly well used, sometimes by as many as 1,000 people.

the Knutsford to Macclesfield road.

They were to be the first triple-expansion twin-screw packets to operate scheduled services in the English Channel.

The people of Weybridge held a meeting in June 1895 to decide on a suitable memorial for Mr Yool, and the first suggestion was to build a technical institute to be named after him.

By the time the railway arrived in Blackpool in 1846, the town was already a resort attracting several thousand visitors a year. Baileys Hotel, later the Metropole, had opened in 1776.

THE MAIN EAST-WEST thoroughfare in Bearsden, one of Glasgow's northern suburbs, is named Roman Road, for it follows the line of a roadway constructed by the Romans in AD 142 along the south side

Other notable changes in town before the Second World War were the straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street

The church contains numerous items of interest; the stained glass windows are particularly fine.

The church contains numerous items of interest; the stained glass windows are particularly fine.

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

In the 19th century the church was heavily 'restored and improved in a hearty manner' by Sir George Gilbert Scott, a nationally famous architect, but the building still retains its medieval appearance

Today, it is hard to understand why people would choose to work such long hours in often terrible conditions, but with the national population growing, unskilled factory work seemed to offer the

I wonder what he would have made of the appearance of the submarines captured from the Germans that were towed up Fareham Lake to be broken up during both wars.

By the mid-19th century visitors demanded more in the way of leisure activities and amusement.