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The quagmire became so impassable that a new wooden roadway had to be added.

Sir William had been away for several years and was thought to be dead, so she married a Welsh knight. Then Sir William came home.

The country was gripped by news from the Boer War, and the public reaction to the news caused a new word to be added to the vocabulary, to 'maffick', or celebrate wildly.

A large crowd gathers here every November for the Remembrance Day service to commemorate the dead of two World Wars.

The Covenanter field commander Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck was among the dead, though his superior, the Duke of Argyll, had seen fit to remain upon his galley in the loch during the whole proceedings

Here, Walney Bridge is still under construction: work is being done on the opening section bascules, and the parapets have still to be added. In the background are the steelworks at Hindpool.

There is a warning to go dead slow as they pass the boat house.

It is probable, given the number of stone circles found on Dartmoor, that a family or a group of families erected them for ritual worship, either to venerate the dead or for an astronomical purpose.

An inscription on the memorial says 'Sons of this place let this of you be said that you who live are worthy of your dead.'

Those on the south wall feature scenes from Judgement Day, including these three members of the faithful pushing up their coffin lids as they rise from the dead.

This is a very peaceful scene for these waters, with an uncharacteristically dead calm sea at high tide.

They would try to peddle such things as rock, drinks, postcards, paper windmills, shells, beads and flowers. A group of such ladies can be seen here seated on the promenade (left).

Indeed, the story is told that the road was so bad that one of the potholes was filled with a fully harnessed dead cart-horse.

Along this sacred avenue dead bodies were probably carried to the temple of Avebury.

He was shot dead later that day. The garrison surrendered three days later, and were allowed to leave.

The town's answer was to shoot the messenger dead.

The war memorial honouring the dead of the two World Wars is seen here in the centre.

It was, then, a sombre community that welcomed the end of the war and gave lavishly to provide memorials to the dead.

It is probably most famous for the fact that the dead from the drowned village of Derwent were re-interred in its churchyard after the construction of the Ladybower Dam during the Second World War.

Everything from the left of the view as far right as the brick building with the dormer was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the deadly Bury Street shopping precinct, which opened in

In April 1914, Francis Priscilla Hunter, aged 23, a between-maid here, was shot dead by her jealous lover, Walter James White. He was executed for the murder at Winchester in June 1914.

It was a usual custom amongst wreckers to kill any sailors who had survived the wrecking; after all, dead men tell no tales.

The young man's body was brought back to St Donat's, where it lay in state in the great gallery, looked down upon by the portraits of his equally dead ancestors.

An old custom at Formby was the carrying of a corpse three times round the Godstone in the belief that it prevented the dead from coming back to haunt their relatives.