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The following year she escaped and joined her army, which was commanded by the fifth Earl of Argyll.

On the left are the Floral Tea Gardens followed by the Pear Tree Inn, later Samuel Banger's potted shrimp paste factory.

In May 1650 further slighting was ordered, and in the following November the Governor of Southampton was ordered to oversee the work.

He was followed by Thomas Seager, who may well be the gentleman smoking a pipe (centre left).

The front of this building was moved here following alterations to the Stamford Mercury Offices on High Street.

There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.

This became the main park for Minehead in 1924 following private donations towards a scheme for the conversion of 6 acres of meadows.

It later came into the possession of the Vane family, though it was temporarily lost by them to the Royalists during the English Civil War following a surprise attack.

In July 1565 Henry, Lord Darnley and Mary, Queen of Scots came to Crookston following their marriage. The castle at that time was owned by Darnley's father the Earl of Lennox.

This follows the course of the old Roman road from London to Chichester, called Stane Street, which is nowadays the busy A24 road from London to Worthing.

Early Edwardian businesses extended from White's furnishing stores (far left) and the Markethouse Inn, followed by Charles Bazley's cycle shop and Hodder's Temperance Hotel.

For a reason that the legend does not make clear, the witch then turned the would-be monarch and his followers into stones.

While Preston does not mark the end of the Ribble, it marks the end of our journey: we have followed the river down from the Pennines, and have seen it pick up all those other rivers on the

The compact grey stone 14th-century church was rebuilt following a fire in the mid 15th century at the behest of its then rector James Goldwell, who later became the Bishop of Norwich.

'Catherine of Aragon stayed here 1501' (left): that was the year she married Arthur, Prince of Wales, who died the following year.

She was traced three weeks later to a hotel in Harrogate, having apparently laid a false trail following an argument with her then husband Colonel Archibald Christie.

Ordered to be slighted, Belvoir was again rebuilt, but the bulk of the present castle dates from its rebuilding following a fire in 1816.

Following the threat from Spain in 1588, the Italian fortifications engineer Federigo Gianibelli was commissioned to improve Carisbrooke's defences; his curtain walls and bastions are still in very good

The year 1907 is carved in the stone, but this picture was taken the following year when the school opened for 200 secondary age boys and girls.

Not many modern retailers would display their stock on the pavement today - theft or prosecution for obstruction would surely follow!

It later came into the possession of the Vane family, though it was temporarily lost by them to the Royalists during the English Civil War following a surprise attack.

As always, the railway made all the difference; the mansions on the skyline were followed by accommodation for those who could afford to get away from it all for a spell.

It was at the priory, in the 16th century, that the annulment of King Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon was pronounced, followed by the dissolution of the priory itself soon afterwards.

In nearby Newburgh Priory possibly lie the headless remains of Oliver Cromwell - his daughter is reputed to have brought the body back from Tyburn after the hanging of his corpse in 1660, following the