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Knott was helped by the MSC, who gave his ships free towage, discounted dock labour, and provided free barging of cargo to and from Liverpool.

Today the lighthouse is run by the Port of Lancaster Commissioners, and it contains a radio beaconm for Trinity House that forms a major link in the British coastguard system.

According to a recent survey by the cruise company Ocean Village, when they interviewed adults over 18, they found that Britain has 'a worrying trend towards glumness.'

According to a recent survey by the cruise company Ocean Village, when they interviewed adults over 18, they found that Britain has 'a worrying trend towards glumness.'

By the end of the 18th century, however, the cattle market was dismantled and the London entrance to the town, as it was known, was improved.

Hungry Forties brought in vast numbers of people particularly from the south and west of Ireland, but even by 1841 (as the census returns of that year testify) the number of Glaswegians denoted by the

In 1925 the rooms were leased by the trustees of the Picton Estate for use as a church hall for nearby St Mary's. By 1970 the building was deemed unsafe and was left un occupied for some time.

This was designed by the same architects, Pite Son & Fairweather, but in a functionally modernist style rather than the neo-Georgian chosen for the town hall.

By the time the railway arrived in Blackpool in 1846, the town was already a resort attracting several thousand visitors a year. Baileys Hotel, later the Metropole, had opened in 1776.

THE MAIN EAST-WEST thoroughfare in Bearsden, one of Glasgow's northern suburbs, is named Roman Road, for it follows the line of a roadway constructed by the Romans in AD 142 along the south side

By the time the building of back-to-back houses was banned by local by-laws in 1864, there were 38,000 in the town.

It was followed by the Commonwealth and Protectorate under Cromwell, and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy under Charles II in 1660.

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

By the end of the 1990s Springfield Quay had been transformed yet again, emerging as the foremost leisure and entertainment areas of the city, with an Odeon multiplex cinema and a score of restaurants

The aristocratic landowners, the Stanleys of Alderley, sold up in 1938, and their park is now occupied by the research facilities for the pharmaceutical firm, Astra Zeneca.

He was bound to France by the 'auld alliance', and also to England by an accord signed in 1502.

Tenby was never really designed for use by the motorcar, and apart from some Victorian road widening, with the demolition of some old terraces and properties, it still largely adheres to its medieval

The Ashley Centre was opened by the Queen on a day of continuous rain which at least proved that covered malls were the best way to ensure comfortable year-round shopping in soggy Britain.

It is now thought that this legend was concocted around the 13th century by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.

Not yet an independent university, the college was one of three set up by the government; they were linked to the Royal University of Ireland, which operated as an examining body from Dublin.

The National Provincial bank is now part of NatWest Bank, itself owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The roads were kept in a good state of repair, enabling high speeds to be maintained by the best of coaches.

The demand of the trams would make it all the more worth-while to carry on with plans to build a more substantial power station on East Bridge Street by the river, using imported coal.

He descended and came to a small basin of sea enclosed by the cliffs [Lulworth Cove]. Troy's nature freshened within him; he thought he would rest and bathe here before going further.