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Before local government was established, Shefford was fortunate in the action of a 16th-century resident called Robert Lucas, who left his property for the benefit of the citizens of Shefford.

This was one of a series of propaganda postcards, issued by the campaigning 1943 Committee and Tyneham Action Group which achieved the opening of weekend paths - the Lulworth Range Walks -

The inner keep is on the right, with holes knocked into its 9ft-thick walls.The smallest Norman keep in England, it last saw action at the end of the Civil War, when Colonel Assheton's forces barricaded

Even though Christchurch saw little action during the English Civil War, the castle was ordered to be demolished.

The only action the castle ever saw was when it was 'captured' from its garrison of just seven men by two Jacobites, who then flew their flag for a few hours before they were eventually thrown out.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

It had an added fame in those years when the flight of steps provided an open-air dais for speakers on religion, politics and strike action.

During the First World War they saw action as troop carriers in the raid on Zeebrugge, and after the war the prefix Royal was added in recognition of their wartime service.

There are three such memorials in the town to remember the dead in foreign lands, but the town itself has seen action on its own soil.

Clearly, he does not want the boy to exert too much pressure and so counteract his own actions, which would turn the boat too quickly and make it collide with the moored craft ahead.

The castle was the scene of the first action by the barons against Edward II. At the time the castle was held by Piers Gaveston, Edward's despised favourite.

Removal of the ivy enables us to admire the late 18th-century house (with a painter in action, left) and next door, a Georgian façade conceals a timber-framed house dated to 1454-55.

Inside, the constant action of the waves has eroded the nearly vertical and contorted beds of chalk and Hastings sand, to create this 500-yard lagoon.

This equestrian initiative to restore public transport went into action in the aftermath of the downpour through the day and night of 18-19 July 1955, when the highest rainfall ever recorded

The castle also saw action in the Civil War, surrendering to Cromwell's force in 1649.

Communal action and a progressive Town Council aided development with the building of promenades, bandstands, concert halls and the provision of a good water supply and drainage.

When he died fighting the French at Trafalgar in 1805, Liverpool sprang into action and erected a monument to him: that bronze monument is seen on the right of this picture.

rivers meet - the Peveril, the Caldew and, most importantly, the Eden; a point that is also marked by a striking natural feature, a sandstone bluff covered by a mound of boulder clay left by the actions

Colonel F Glanville, killed in action fighting for the King at Bridgwater, 1645, and John Glanville, 1673, are also commemorated.

The clearance of the navigation was a very contentious issue in the early 17th century and an Act enabling the building of locks and wharves was not passed until 1664.