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The rigorous approach does not appear to have been particularly successful; many of those who came here now lie buried in graves at St John's cemetery in the village.

It was linked to the town's two older docks and the graving dock, allowing vessels to move between them without having to enter the Mersey.

An unusual grave can be found in the churchyard of St Mary - the opening notes of Francis Duckworth's famous hymn 'Rimington' are engraved on the stone.

The skulls and bones here pictured make up the remains of some 4,000 people, which are thought to have been disinterred from old graves to make way for new.

After the churchyard became full, Admiral Chaloner gave land for the creation of a new town cemetery, although the churchyard continued to be used for later interments into existing family graves.

The Prince stayed in Liverpool at the Grange, Wavertree, the home of Liverpool MP Mr S R Graves.

Before it was finally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, the King's disembodied head was kept as a curio by Lancelot Young, master glazier to Elizabeth I.

James Graves held the licence in 1891. The area was the site of the Punchbowl Fairs.

The sole remnants of the great days of Clyde shipping today are the three derelict graving docks at Govan and the giant crane across the river.

The derelict buildings around the square, which had been the cause of grave concern, have also been brought back to life.

Beside the A34 in Nether Alderley is the grave of the third Lord Stanley, buried apart from the rest of his relations as he was a Muslim.

Much of literary society visited him here, braving the attentions of his ferocious little dog Wessex.

The great natural arch of Durdle Door braves the sea just a little way from the more famous Lulworth Cove.

The great natural arch of Durdle Door braves the sea just a little way from the more famous Lulworth Cove.

This could be any town, anywhere, the epitome of the Borough Architects' brave new world of the early 1960s.

A bronze statuette commemorates the brave man who saved Winchester Cathedral.

Here, Edwardian bathers are braving the chilly East coast waters.

Its closed appear to belie the traditional welcome one would expect from a parish church, but even in 1965 it was a brave cleric who held the doors open wide at all times.

Its closed appear to belie the traditional welcome one would expect from a parish church, but even in 1965 it was a brave cleric who held the doors open wide at all times.

Few who saw the film version of the latter will forget the scene where the enigmatic heroine, played by Meryl Streep, stood braving a storm at the end of the Cobb—Lyme's harbour wall.

So bravely did they defend this hopeless position in the face of a mightier parliamentarian army that the Roundhead commander allowed them to leave with colours flying.

So bravely did they defend this hopeless position in the face of a mightier parliamentarian army that the Roundhead commander allowed them to leave with colours flying.

Hargreaves' cycle shop on the left appears to be bravely ignoring the impending domination of the Grove by the automobile.

They were provided by former residents who had gone to live abroad but still craved news of the town.