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Gilpin came to Houghton after being cleared of charges of heresy, but he was indicted a second time and was on his way to answer the charges when he broke his leg.

The Quaker Meeting House came in 1836, and next is Summerfield House, formerly an inn. Finally, on the right is the Wesleyan chapel of 1836.

Built for the Hussey family, the tower came into the council's hands in 1544 after Lord Hussey was executed by Henry VIII.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

There is a story that when Charles Dickens lived at nearby Gadshill, he had a tunnel constructed that led under the main road and came up in his garden on the other side in the parish of Shorne; here he

The iron gates in the foreground came from Wellington College in 1922.

The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Ferrars.

The end came not so much from power looms, but from printed imitations. In one Glasgow mill they used a treadmill worked by a Newfoundland dog.

The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones. Fortunately, Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame!)

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with many such monuments, it came complete with a captured Russian cannon.

The space age came to Cornwall when this first dish, or antenna, was built in 1962; it received the first live television pictures via satellite from America.

The pilchard drivers came in at around 30ft in length; until the 1890s they had been open-decked. During the autumn the pilchard boats also went after herring.

The total bill came to £130 8s 6d, some of which went to '60 men of St Just who did nothing but drink beer to the value of 13s 6d'.

Richard Wootton soon came to head the Trainers' Championship, while Stanley was best known as a tutor of jockeys.

The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).

It was bought by Harris's to store sawdust for smoking their bacon; their supplies came from W E Beint & Sons Ltd, whose sawmills at Studley were famous for making elm coffin boards and pit props for

The 14th- and 15th-century cloisters have a new fame as the setting for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films.

building on Ashtead Common, owned by Frederick Felton, served as the village bakery around the turn of the century, but also formed a focus for the hordes of London day and Sunday school children who came

William Craven later became the Lord Mayor of London; in his later years he came back to this area, when he restored the Hall and rebuilt Burnsall Bridge.

Perhaps the man who made the bell had other things on his mind when it came to putting in the inscription, as he forgot to invert the words laterally in the mould, and they appear backwards on

Queen Elizabeth II came and re-opened the restored, re-designed Mechanics Institute on 12 November 1987.

St Cadfan was one of the Three Blessed Visitors who came from Brittany in the 6th century; he was the founder and first abbot of the monastery on Bardsey Island.

The chapel, which is famed for its elaborate carvings, was founded in 1446 as a collegiate church, but only the lady chapel and choir were completed.