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Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.

Inside there is a Jacobean chimneypiece that originally came from Pershore in Worcestershire.

These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.

In 1965 all the cranes were dipped in salute when the body of Sir Winston Churchill came upstream from Tower Pier to Waterloo after his state funerall.

A plywood mill imported timber from Africa, which came to the canal from Avonmouth docks by barge, as we can see here.

Then Sir William came home.

This is also the highest tidal point up to which shipping once came; but as this view shows, the quays and channel became silted by material washed down the river.

People mostly arrive at the Lickeys by car today (though there are plenty of buses), but from 1913 to 1924 they came by bus, and from 1924 to 1952 on the hugely popular Number 70 tram, which served

It is often said to have been founded by Lady Godiva, but Meriden's main claim to fame is the ancient cross on the village green reputed to mark the centre of England.

Alfred Watkins, the man who came up with the idea of ley lines, claimed that churches were sometimes built deliberately on ancient tracks, with tunnels provided for travellers to pass through

Captain Bligh (of mutiny on the 'Bounty' fame) is buried in the churchyard.

Well before it became a favourite bathing and picnic spot, the Lune's beauties at Caton were extolled by the poets Wordsworth and Gray, and Turner came to paint the scene.

The bell came from the mortuary chapel at Ayot St Peter, to whom it had been donated by Charles Willes Wilshere of The Frythe in 1876.

The mouth of the Otter is now an important nature reserve, famed for is wild birds.

Fame is assured by the fact that the roundabout is named after the establishment.

Chambercombe is an ancient manor, named after the de Cambernon family, one of whom fought alongside William the Conqueror at Hastings.

Combe Martin`s early prosperity came from its lead and silver mines, which were worked from prehistoric times.

In 1920 all the influential Dunlop Guide could find to say about the town was that it had 'pleasant walks by the river'.Wetherby was famed for its ancient Thursday market and fair, sanctioned

The mansion in the park was originally known as Heath House, and later came to be called Studley Court.

Behind the Georgian Manor House are the stables used by three generations of the famed horse trainers, the Peacock family.

The hotel gradually gained a low reputation, and it was where the village poor came to collect their dole.

A second boost came 100 years later when the railway was built.

A large number of pubs were closed when the licensing act of 1902 came into force.