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A favourite epitaph is that over the graves of Thomas Scaife and Joseph Rutherford, killed in a railway accident: 'My engine now is cold and still, No water does my boiler fill; My coke affords its flames

Its flames flashed warnings during the Napoleonic wars and second Jacobite Rebellion.

The symbol then was a flaming torch, its detail picked out with white reflectors.

It is interesting to note the old-fashioned flaming beacon school sign on the left, and the cobbled frontage to the cottages and the Black Bull Inn on the right.

The story goes that as the old church went up in flames, the vicar exclaimed 'Good gracious, and I have left my false teeth in the vestry!'

Erected in 1895 as a memorial after the removal of an ancient burial ground, St Andrew's Cross was damaged the night before the church went up in flames and was subsequently removed.

In foul weather the Lizard presented a gloomy face, but when the sun shone and the gorse was in flame, it was a paradise for the botanist and holidaymaker.

The old flaming torch sign (left) marks the approach to the village school in Holmfirth Road, Meltham, another Pennine edge town founded on the textile industry.

The cenotaph does not look quite so pristine these days: the plaque is missing, and the niche containing the eternal flame is guarded on both sides by ugly plastic panels.

The cenotaph does not look quite so pristine these days: the plaque is missing, and the niche containing the eternal flame is guarded on both sides by ugly plastic panels.

The grey granite war memorial has the names of the fallen on the base, an inscription on the column and is surmounted by an everlasting flame.

The story goes that as the old church went up in flames, the vicar exclaimed 'Good gracious, and I have left my false teeth in the vestry!'

One Sunday in 1945 a tremendous explosion rocked the village, and a ball of flames erupted from behind the trees on Warwick Road.

One Sunday in 1945 a tremendous explosion rocked the village, and a ball of flames erupted from behind the trees on Warwick Road.

Charles Stuart, fleeing after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, reached Bromsgrove disguised as the servant of the remarkable Jane Lane.

Flames jumped the road and damaged a thatched building opposite.

Germany had defeated France at the Battle of Sedan and the Empress was forced to flee her homeland for ever.

Members of the Jewish community who had sought refuge in the castle either died in the flames when it was set alight or were butchered as they attempted to escape.

Unfortunately, the funerary decorations caught fire, and body, portraits, and the great gallery went up in flames.

The plinth on which the column stands is 7ft high and the obelisk is 42ft with a sculpted eternal flame at the top.

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

It was opened twice a week by Mr Webb, the headmaster of the Abbey School - its sign with a flaming torch can be seen on the right-hand end of the building.

The steep, winding and narrow High Street (down which flaming tar barrels were rolled to the terror of the populace until the practice was banned in 1824) gives an excellent impression of

The window that you can see to the left of the lamp-post now has modern stained glass in it, in wonderful reds and oranges, to depict the flames of the bombing; it was designed as a tribute to the Cathedral