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When he stood as MP for Manchester in 1857 he was rejected, and an effigy of him was burnt in the street.

The Cenotaph was built to a design by Sir Edwin Lutyens; it is similar to the one in Whitehall, and it stands where St Peter's Church once stood.

John Bunyan's home in the village is shown as it was in 1921 in this photograph; it stood on the west side of the northern end of Elstow High Street, but was demolished in the 1960s.

The closest buildings are Cobb Cliff and Wings (centre right) - Wings stood from 1827 to 1945.

It was only a mile away that George Fox, the Quaker, stood on the 'nick' of Pendle in 1652 and declared himself moved to start a religious order, the Society of Friends.

King Street on the left was so named not from this hotel but from the King's Arms Inn which stood on the site until 1813, when it was demolished to make way for a more level access for carriages into

Here we see the main drive to the Hall, which stood until c1950.

For those unfamiliar with Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), she is most famous for the line 'The boy stood on the burning deck', from her poem 'Casabianca', written in the 19th century.

A church dedicated to St Edmund has stood on this site since at least the 12th century; indeed, it is mentioned in a Papal Bull by Pope Lucius III dated 1182.

Mount Lebanon stood in large grounds alongside Orleans House.

It originally stood where the Boer War Memorial stands today.

The Scots attacked Penrith again in 1383, but it was not until 1397 that William Strickland was granted a licence to crenellate his home that stood in the town.

Today, where the manor once stood is the site of Pearsons Ltd, the department store. Nothing remains of the original building.

A fire engine house stood at the entrance to Gadebridge, and a new Fire Station was built on the site in 1905. The building, part of a pseudo-Tudor block, still stands in Queensway.

In the 17th century an earlier fulling mill, called Cannop's Mill, stood on the site.

(Author's Collection) Dudley Hippodrome replaced the Opera House, which had stood on Castle Hill since 1899 but had been destroyed by fire in November 1936.

He went into partnership with another man in order to develop the business, but they did turn down the chance to buy the field the cabin stood in, and the one next to it, for just £15.

As things stood, the company operated under a lease from the Corporation under which it paid rent for the use of the streets.

This house had been built on the site of The Friars, a private residence that stood where the Dominican priory's tumbledown refectory had once been.

Consider this: give or take a few yards, Guglielmo Marconi founded the world's first radio factory on the very spot where a 1st-century pagan temple had once stood.

It stood next to the fort, and became known as the Perch light.

It stood on the site of an open air theatre which had hosted pierrot shows. This tent was in turn replaced by a wooden building which, after the Second World War, became the Gaiety Theatre.

he lost mansion of Deepdene, owned by Lord Francis Hope, once stood near the busy A24. The Howard family first owned the estate as far back as the middle of the 17th century.

The first cinema stood at the corner between Chapel Street and Swan Street - in fact, the demolition of the Swan public house made way for the Electric Theatre.