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It had to be an opening bridge to allow the passage of shipping up the channel to some of the docks.

The Wyndham Arms, a Grade II listed building, used to be an important coaching inn.

On the extreme right is a single-decker bus which would now be an asset to any transport collection.

The church appears to be an appendage to the house and its balustrades include inscriptions written in English.

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.'

the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop previously occupied by the branch of Teekoff, whose roasting coffee beans

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

He was shot dead later that day.

Perhaps more redolent of the English Riviera than the Continent, the terraced gardens facing the ocean, opened in 1926, were to be an instantaneous and roaring success.

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.

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.

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

It sits in one corner of what is thought to be an old hill fort, and was the last castle to be built by a native Welsh prince, Dafydd, brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales.

In the summer time and on Bank Holidays, you could be an hour just getting through this mile-long village.

This must be an early photograph, because cars had later to be parked behind the building in the famous 'toast rack' construction on the right of this view, which is not yet built.

There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

All were dead except for just one man.

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

The photograph is of the War Memorial to the dead of both World Wars sited on the original Stopsley village green.

The River Beane runs close to the church, and is liable to heavy flooding.

The priests of the college were 'chantry priests' who offered masses for the souls of the dead, their founder and benefactors.

In the summer time and on Bank Holidays, you could be an hour just getting through this mile-long village.