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Station Road led down to the railway station, now long gone.

Cromer did its bit for the First World War by donating the ornate entrance gates for scrap metal - they were melted down and converted into armaments.

This view looks from the top of King Street down towards Cross Street. We can see that the street narrows towards the bottom.

Prior to this, the Old Town Hall (1780), the offices of The Hampshire Post and Pince's School obscured the view of St Peter's from the Square. In 1898 these buildings were pulled down.

The depot of H & G Symonds Ltd (further down the road) was the former North Wilts Brewery.

The grounds were being sold of for development at beginning of the 20th century; Lebanon House was being used for furniture storage when it burnt down in 1909.

The Shoulder of Mutton next door became a butcher's, and was later knocked down to give access to a new development.

The last serious religious troubles in Stafford were the Sectarian Riots of 1715, when a mob of 'lewd fellows of the baser sort' attacked the Presbyterian Chapel with the intention of burning it down

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

The famous street Steep Hill, the most aptly named street in England, is down to the right.

Stretching down from the north side of town towards the coble landing, Filey is still a mixture of a fishing village and a Victorian resort.

In 1879 the prince's stand burnt down, and was replaced on a larger scale, with a tower at the rear.

The pretty village of Thorp Arch with its green, Manor House and old mill leads down to the banks of the Wharfe, with the bridge (1772) carrying the road to Boston Spa.

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons

The cattle auction mart further down Gisburn Road closed in 1990.

Down the street, the Assembly Rooms (centre) can be seen protruding from behind Middle Row. Holiday- related businesses include a Post Card Depot and a photographer's Kodak sign.

There were numbers on the posts running down the hall, and letters on the posts across the hall, so businesses could co-ordinate where to meet in such a busy and packed room.

At that time the village was known as Thomas Town.

The Townley family owned the hall for over 500 years; it was given to the people of Burnley by the last occupant, Lady O'Hagan, the widow of Lord O'Hagan, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Parts of the bridge fell onto the tankers, the gas main was fractured, and the resulting explosion brought down yet more debris onto the vessels.

We are standing underneath the market cross and looking down the High Street.

IN 1908, in his Round About Wiltshire, A G Bradley wrote an idyllic description of the five mile 'run' between Beckhampton and Calne: 'One is on the wide open down, traversing the north-western

The fortress was built by William Fitz Osbern between 1067 and 1071, and was one of a chain of strongholds erected to hold down south-east Wales.

Bideford was a busy little quay both for traffic up and down the Taw and Tamar rivers, and for general coasting trade between the north Devon and north Cornwall ports, the Bristol Channel and South