Search Results

Weighing machines like this one were once common, and an example can be seen in Hitchin Museum in Paynes Park.

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

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

Along with the substantial numbers of parked cars along the verges, a laden lorry and a coach are advancing down the High Street, representative of the immense numbers of similar heavy vehicles which

Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column. St Paul's was enlarged in 1870 and 1880, and the tower was rebuilt in 1904.

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!

Towards the southern end of London Road, the 'tip-up' cart is parked waiting for its horse to be harnessed, whilst a milk cart (left) winds slowly up the hill towards the Congregational church close to

His finest work in Leicestershire was Beaumanor Park (1845), but his best known work is Nelson's Column. St Paul's was enlarged in 1870 and 1880, and the tower was rebuilt in 1904.

The parkland was first enclosed as a deer park in 1604, and has subsequently provided peace and tranquillity for National Trust visitors since 1953.

The revised fair was centred upon Victoria Park. Any livestock connection was purely coincidental, as the procession of floats gathered (or should that be 'mustered'?)

There were three pubs - the Royal Oak and the King's Head on the High Street, roughly where their namesakes are today, and the Clarence Arms (now the Park Hotel) on Park Road.

The pub is the King Ethelbert; it is still there today, though it is now surrounded by amusement arcades, tea and burger vans and a car park.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

The canal had fallen into disuse by the 1930s but has been gradually restored by the British Waterways Board, with support from the National Park and others since 1968; it was reopened to the public in

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

From the modern, bustling entertainment of Drusilla's Zoo Park we finish this chapter in Wilmington, on the east side of the Cuckmere River.

By the 1950s the Market Place had become a car park and the statue had gone.

The 13th-century church of St Margaret, on the edge of the park, was struck by lightning in 1598 and largely burned to the ground.

St Michael's Church, demolished in the next century to make room for a car park, can be seen in the centre.

The outdoor market, held weekly on Market Hill and Park Street, moved into the Plait Halls in 1925 and became a daily occurrence in the process.

Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.

The name of the 16th-century half-timbered Grantley Arms in the centre of the village reflects the former dominance of the family whose seat was at nearby Wonersh Park.

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for