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They are buried in seven graves here around the Husker Monument, which bears the inscription 'Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is'.

An ancient pulpit, a Norman font and the gravestone of a medieval knight, besides old and interesting stones and graves in the churchyard, enthrall the visitor to this 'cathedral of the Fylde'.

It rarely looks back to the past and to the time when, for example, Daniel Clerk the grave digger kept a large basket of human bones in his kitchen, claiming that he knew whose remains each was.

Southampton came complete with dry docks, graving docks and a foreign animals wharf.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.