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Colman the cutler and ironmonger (right) was a partner of Glendenning, a saddler and travelling case maker for the gentry.

The wall, which enclosed the medieval borough, is 800 yds long with eight towers and two twin-towered gateways.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

The statue of the Prince is 40 ft above the ground, and the near two-tonne bell could be heard eight miles away on quiet days. The clockwork is to the same design as that of Big Ben.

Powered by two sets of inverted triple expansion engines, fed by eight boilers and 24 furnaces, the Eclipses could exceed 19-20 knots for short periods.

The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers. There was a bandstand on the green, an outdoor and indoor skating rink, three cinemas and a stage for Pierrots.

On the right, the two Ford Populars and the Morris Eight Series 1 tourer are parked outside the Home and Colonial Stores (now a pizza parlour and a video hire shop) and the block of three chain shops -

Eight metres wide and elevated in towns - their 'High' Streets - it was the route that Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) took in AD 60 to her final battle with the Roman Governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

The female staff lived inside the house in the background, Southfield, while the patients were accommodated in a collection of eight wooden huts to the left.

Consequently, the police only came to Loughborough eight years after most of the rest of Leicestershire.

Situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff, Barry was the last of the great Welsh coal ports to be developed.

Reflecting Sheffield's industrial history there are two friezes carved in stone which depict, among other things, grinders, smiths, smelters and miners, and a 200-foot tower surmounted by an eight-foot

Until about the middle of the 19th century, the third (curfew) bell was rung daily at five in the morning and eight in the evening, warning householders to extinguish their fires until morning; this

Howard's Dairies grew over 60 years into a prosperous business with eight distribution centres, 30 shops and 1,000 employees.

In May 1652 Dunnottar was besieged by General Lambert for eight months in an attempt to seize the Royal Regalia of Scotland and the King's private papers.

The latter had dormer windows and stood on eight oak pillars.

For example, the 70-odd Stony Stratford occupations of the 1790s included sixteen victuallers, fifteen grocers, nine carpenters and eight bakers, as well as a collar-maker, a fisherman and net-

This incorporates a series of eight pointed crosses, representing a possible connection with the Knights Templar.

Basildon is one of eight New Towns which were set up around London between 1946 and 1949, immediately after the Second World War.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.