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Samuel Pepys studied here between 1650 and 1653, and on his death in 1703 his library came here, including the original manuscript volumes of his famous diaries.

Each weighs about thirty tons - they possibly came from the quarries at Knaresborough.

Grain and produce came up river from East Yorkshire, while coal, glass products, and minerals were sent from here both to London and the continent.

Many of the Manchester businessmen that settled in Alderley in the mid 19th century came from a Nonconformist background and they often kept up their connections with the city.

He earned more than local fame when he stayed at his post, transmitting the new 'SOS' signal until the ship sank.

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

When the tower itself came down in about 1912, the tower building continued to be a centre for entertainment.

Then came Mrs Gristwood's bakery shop, which was replaced by Howe & Son, and ultimately by Spurriers.

Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on the finished

Working people usually had one set of clothes for work and another for best, and for a trip to the seaside the best clothes came out of the closet - or the pawn shop.

A newer Shanklin grew up along the seashore to cater for the demands of both visitors and those who came to settle.

Built for the Hussey family, the tower came into the council's hands in 1544 after Lord Hussey was executed by Henry VIII.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

The iron gates in the foreground came from Wellington College in 1922.

The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones. Fortunately, Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame!)

The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.

The end came not so much from power looms, but from printed imitations. In one Glasgow mill they used a treadmill worked by a Newfoundland dog.

There is a story that when Charles Dickens lived at nearby Gadshill, he had a tunnel constructed that led under the main road and came up in his garden on the other side in the parish of Shorne; here he

Richard Wootton soon came to head the Trainers' Championship, while Stanley was best known as a tutor of jockeys.

building on Ashtead Common, owned by Frederick Felton, served as the village bakery around the turn of the century, but also formed a focus for the hordes of London day and Sunday school children who came

William Craven later became the Lord Mayor of London; in his later years he came back to this area, when he restored the Hall and rebuilt Burnsall Bridge.

Queen Elizabeth II came and re-opened the restored, re-designed Mechanics Institute on 12 November 1987.

The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).

It was bought by Harris's to store sawdust for smoking their bacon; their supplies came from W E Beint & Sons Ltd, whose sawmills at Studley were famous for making elm coffin boards and pit props for