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Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and surviving wife, was born here in 1512; at that time the castle was in the hands of Sir Thomas Parr.
A bronze tablet removed from an earlier bridge reads: 'Pray for Humfrey Pakynton Esquyer borne in Stanford which payde for ye workemanshepe and makyng of this brygg the whiche was rered & made the first
The tall cluster of stacks to its right belongs to No 45, The Mansion House, a Georgian house set back from the street front, in which Sir Norman Angell was born, the winner of the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize
Frederick Barker was born at Baslow on 17 March 1808, and followed other members of his family by becoming a churchman.
During this period, a quarter of all children born to mill workers died before reaching their first birthday.
Sir Walter Raleigh was born just outside East Budleigh at Hayes Barton in 1552.
The naval dockyards at Devonport were a prime objective, and the city bore the brunt of what missed the target.
Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist, was born in this cottage in 1840, writing his first few novels sitting on the window ledge of the upstairs right-hand room.
The Black Prince was born here.
The 'day trip' was born.
Fourteen years after this photograph was taken, the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke was born in nearby Blenheim Road.
the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century prophetess who allegedly forecast motorcars and aircraft, and Blind Jack Metcalf, born
Dominating the Market Place is this dignified bronze statue, erected in 1861, of Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer, born in Spilsby in 1786.
Lewis Carroll's father was the vicar here; unfortunately, the parsonage in which Carroll was born was destroyed by fire in 1883.
He was born in the reign of William IV and died aged 97 during the reign of George V.
The second cottage on the left in this typical row is, I believe, where my grandmother was born.
John Gerard, born in Nantwich in 1545, was educated in this village.
The poet George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh in 1754.
Richard later married the Earl's daughter, Anne, and their only son, Edward, was born here in 1473.
Anstey's Cove, with Redgate Beach hidden on the left, was a favourite bathing spot for Agatha Christie, who was born in Torquay in 1890.
