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The following year, interest in this already popular facility soared owing to its inclusion in a series of BBC programmes based on South Wales clubs.

Following Fairfax's rout of the royalist forces under Sir Ralph Hopton, the church was being used as a magazine and prison.

The East India Harbour was completed in 1806-07, the Victoria Dock opened during the 1850s and the Albert Dock followed a decade or so later.

It was in the years following the war that Chester Zoo acquired the excellent reputation that it has today for its breeding programmes, including the breeding of orang-utans.

It died out following a Royal Proclamation in 1615 prohibiting the use of wood as an industrial fuel.

practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.They would sow oats in spring which were harvested late, followed

Members of the Watts family ran the shop for a century: the Misses Watts, from Higher Holt, were followed by William Watts and his branch of the family.

Following enlargement of the church (c1453-73) the construction of the distinctive 'West Country' type tower is believed to have been the gift of Lady Isabel, Duchess of Clarence.

The last Scottish national parliament was held here in 1646, and Oliver Cromwell lived at Linlithgow for several months following the Battle of Dunbar.

Following its slighting in 1337, Bothwell lay waste until 1362 when it was refortified. Excavations here have uncovered the largest assemblage of medieval pottery so far found on a single site.

Boots and International Stores had both been long-term tenants of this corner, but in 1976 Boots moved away, and the Leeds Permanent Building Society, followed by the Halifax, moved in.

Elsewhere people paid to follow fashion and cover their houses with bricks; here that was a luxury few could afford.

The first forge is reputed to have been working in 1425, with the first ironworks following in 1577; it is also said that the first forge in America was built by emigrants from the town.

It was probably here that the Duke of Monmouth was brought as a prisoner following the crushing of his rebellion in 1685.

Between Whitstable and Herne Bay, this modern residential suburb and resort, with its grassy cliff-top promenade and shingle beach, was developed mainly in the years following the Second World War.

Among Leamington's famous residents was Napoleon III of France, who came to the town for a short period following France's defeat at the hands of Prussia in 1871.

The latter was restored following damage sustained during the Blitz; St Nicholas's was extensively restored in the early 1960s.

They would sow oats in spring which were harvested late, followed by a winter crop of rye. Royds Moor is named after a royd cleared for crops probably around the mid 12th century.

The castle, which dates from 1282, was left to slide into decay following its siege during the Civil War in 1645. It held out for the king, and was thereafter slighted by Cromwell's men.

Next is the Sun Inn, followed by confectioner and milliner Miss Amanda Spiller (with two separate shops), and Mrs Rosa Warren's china and glass store.

on the way north or south along the coast, with just a prehistoric burial chamber and some beautiful hill walks to delay the traveller - unless you were making for the large caravan sites that emerged following

Additional land followed; after what appears to have been some behind-the-scenes 'discussions', the architect Charles Nicholson was appointed in 1932 to design the present attractive and well-detailed

The original road to Market Bosworth bypassed Nailstone, following an ancient green lane to the west of Nailstone Gorse.

In 1852, following an outbreak of cholera, the council bought out the private water suppliers for £250,000 and embarked on schemes totalling £4 million, so that by 1918 the city was being supplied with