Search Results

On the near side of the street, parked close to the butcher's and optician's, is a motor vehicle whose registration letters AB 100 mark it as being one of the earliest to take to the road in

This view of the Anglo-Saxon tower with its 15th-century shingled broach spire is seen past farm buildings, now converted to houses, while the field has become a yacht park.

developed from the 1890s when, after 60 years of opposition, the Drakes and then the Tyrwhitt-Drakes finally allowed the railway to come to Amersham, but up the hill and out of sight of their mansion and park

The sign at the far end of the car park tells us that in the 1950s the hotel had a swimming pool.

He rebuilt the house, and diverted local roads and created a park with avenues of trees on his glebe land.

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Note the piles of rubble deposited onto the bank, perhaps early in-fill as this part of the river is built up after this date and by 1960 has evolved into a car park.

They are not there now - housing or car parks have taken their place. The road is still the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road. Remember Green Shield Stamps? The garage on the right offered them!

rebuilding and extension, doubling the size of the house, and moved the entire village of More Crichel except for St Mary`s Church, a mile away to the south in order to landscape the surrounding park

A century later the film was partly made at Denton Park, near Ilkley.

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

The land for the park was given by Lt Col Cross, who lived in a large and impressive house at the Red Scar.

But because of the enormous growth in London traffic during the Victorian era, it was dismantled in 1878, and was acquired by Sir Henry Meux as the entrance to the family estate at Theobald's Park.

The twin towers have been an inspiring sporting symbol since the stadium was built in 1923 as part of the British Empire Exhibition.

Wells furnishers were related to the brewing family of the same name; the Green Chair sign over the shop is intended as a hark back to the craftsman guilds of medieval times.

Tudor dream; but his buildings have survived the building of the New Town, and his name is preserved in Howard Crescent, where examples of his residential development can still be seen, and in Howard Park

This shopping centre holds three large stores, over 40 shops and parking for 800 cars. Yet it has been slipped in behind the frontage of the High Street without any disturbance.

Fact File (David Brooks) New houses in Clarendon Park, where Long Grove Hospital stood.

It was truly a sylvan approach to Bedford Park. On the left are typical late Victorian houses; the one on the far left, No 67, is now the Bedford School Study Centre.

The 450-acre Finningley Park Estate was sold in 1935, and within a year a new RAF airstrip was built on its flat land.

The barn itself is no longer agricultural, and has been added to the restaurant: nowadays it offers 'The Family Welcome', and there is a huge car park to the right of this view.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The cross dates from the 15th century (it was restored in 2003), while Mr Waller, head gardener at Ackworth Park, built the shelter in the late 1930s.

After a succession of owners and tenants, the estate was sold to Featherstone Council in 1930 for £3,600, after which it was used as the Town Hall and a public park.