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The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.

Once the site of a rambling royal palace largely burned down in the 1690s, the road gradually acquired government offices and the home of the prime minister in Downing Street - its entrance

'Slaid' means 'flat marshy ground', 'burn' is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.

The east window was designed by Burne-Jones and installed in 1891.

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Apart from Westminster Hall, the old parliament buildings were burned down in 1834 and the present buildings, in Gothic style, replaced them.

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque inside the store) and Joan Burns

Among other things, Christian threw out the beautiful 15th- century font cover; this was rescued in 1870 from a nearby linhay, but not before the farmer's wife had tried to get her husband to burn

By 1900 it had ceased milling corn and was a timber yard and chair maker's workshop, but it burned down completely in 1912.

The house was used as a school from 1921, but it burned down on 15 July 1951.

The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.

It was burned down around 1900 and given a tiled octagonal roof with dormers and a weather vane.

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

The area on the left burned down in 1883, and the buildings post-date that; they include the former Free Library built in 1895, the building with the tall oriel bay windows.

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.

He was a ruthless man, and involved himself in sentencing wrong-doers to be burned at the stake - especially Protestants.

The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End.

There had been a No 1 grain elevator on Trafford Wharf, but this had been hit by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War, and after months of burning and smouldering because it was full of grain

The fact that there are so many streams and burns feeding into the river system makes the area even more fascinating.

The corn mill burned down in 1961, and then in 1964 Dr Beeching swung his axe and the pretty railway line from Buntingford to Ware was closed.

It is the work of Morris and Co, which is Burne-Jones 1876, as is some of the other stained glass.

But later, during his visit in 1835 as a young cub newspaper reporter, he witnessed the burning of the west wing when the first marchioness was burnt to death after knocking over a lighted candle.

The earlier town hall was burned down during the post-First World War disturbances in July 1919.