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Its majesty was attenuated somewhat when the Great Western Railway line from Wolverhampton to Chester came along and was built even higher.

Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae.

When Henry II came to the throne, he resolved the lack of royal castles in Suffolk by confiscating four of Hugh's.

Two years later the Art Gallery opened, and the whole building came into use.

The Hall was famed for its oak carvings, panelling, plaster work, and handprinted wall papers.

south aisle or Farnham Chapel contains monuments of interest, particularly one to John Farnham of Quorn Hall attributed to Epiphanius Evesham (1570-c1633), whose superb talent should have ensured his fame

James Atherton, who bought the 170 acres of land on this north-east corner of Wirral, had to modify his original grand plans.

The site was excavated in the 1930s by Dame Kathleen Kenyon, but it has managed to remain a comparatively unsung part of Roman history.

Warrington's Town Hall was originally Bank Hall, built between 1749-50 by the world-famous architect James Gibbs as a home for a local businessman, Thomas Patten.

In 1887 Peter and Alexander Campbell decided to relocate their excursion steamer business from Scotland to the relatively untapped Bristol Channel, where they soon came to dominate the market.

Fortunately Richard Ansdell RA, the world-renowned Victorian painter, chose to build a house, Starr Hills, amongst the sandhills; although his hope was for solitude, he brought fame and expansion to the

Marrying the Duke of Monmouth, she sheltered him at Toddington when his scheme to take the throne from James II came unstuck.

Three years after William Cobbett rode through this stretch of countryside in August 1823, the Dale family came to Aldhurst Farm.

Vessels collided with the bridge quite frequently, but the fatal blow came in October 1960.

Southport local authority came to the rescue in 1932, when financial difficulties were about to force a sale to a housing development company.

Bunney's was the shop for unusual gifts and imported goods from all over the world, which came to Britain via Liverpool Docks.

Sir Joseph came from the nearby village of Revesby, and the plants he brought back from his journey with Captain Cook formed Kew Gardens.

For some 100 years it was the residence of successive members of one family: James Brooks came to Odiham in 1818 to join an attorney's partnership, and his descendants continued as solicitors in

During the Second World War, Mrs Armitage, who had taken to using her pony and trap to save petrol, would tie the pony up to the pump when she came down to the village to shop, never mind

He in his turn was expelled in 1660, and Thomas Wright came back, just for one year, as he died in 1661.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

Stone came from local quarries within a short distance from here, and even the clay for bricks was found on his land.

Things came to a head in 1706 when the Excise launched a full investigation of the port over alleged customs avoidance.