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The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.

The 'Cali' has satisfied the thirst of generations of holidaymakers, but before the tourists came it served the community of beachmen who lived here from 1850 onwards.

Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae.

The bay, with its wide sandy beach, was almost certainly the landing place of the Danish brothers Hengist and Horsa, who came to Britain in 449AD to fight for the British king Vortigern against the

After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients

Wars with France between 1793 and 1815 prevented the wealthy doing the 'Grand Tour', and so they came to Exmouth instead.

It was once said of the village that 'Puddington is singularly quiet; it is so quiet that it has never yet reached the fame of a picture postcard'.

So long was her reign that the seal had to be changed to depict the familiar older figure rather than the teenager she was when she came to the throne.

The bronze bust of Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan fame was erected in Victoria Embankment Gardens in 1903.

Apart from vinegar-making, the site of several skirmishes for control of the bridge during the Civil War, and an old church with an oddly-shaped tower, Upton's other claim to fame is that Henry Fielding

He came in 1958, and before long had acquired a reputation amongst the staff as an escapee, always managing to get away from the island where he was housed.

Abraham Lincoln's ancestors came from here, and there is a bust of him in the aisle of the parish church.

The surviving west tower is where Jane Shore, mistress of Edward IV, came after his death.

Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant's main claim to fame was its waterfall; it was also the home vicarage of William Morgan, the 16th-century translator of the Bible into Welsh.

It is famed for its Shrewsbury Chapel, which is located on the south side of the 15th-century chancel; among the monuments is one to the 6th Earl who was burdened for so many years with the task of looking

Development came to Burnt Oak in the early 1920s with the arrival of the Northern Line.

When the Domesday Book was being compiled, Kenilworth came under the jurisdiction of the royal manor of Stoneleigh.

In July 1905, when the king and queen came to Sheffield to open the university, tramway takings during the visit were a staggering £6,664.

Holy Trinity church contains a Saxon cross, found in the 19th century, and the Bolton family pews, which came from the theatre in London's Drury Lane.

Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

Additional protection came by digging out the original Roman ditch defences and piling the spoil over what remained of the circuit walls to create a rampart.

At Wadebridge the Camel is so fast-flowing that it is said that there were once chapels on each bank by the ford where travellers prayed for a safe crossing.

By the time this photograph was taken, it had become a favourite amusement for tourists, who came to glimpse the awful conditions that the convicts would have lived in.