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An additional claim to fame is the fact that the then HRH Princess Elizabeth and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh spent part of their honeymoon here in 1947.

Motor transport came along with smoother roads, and enabled more journeys to the towns. Railways provided some villages with reliable travel to anywhere in the country.

An additional claim to fame is that the-then HRH Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh spent part of their honeymoon here in 1947.

Up to seven thousand a year came to devour a well-earned tea in one or other of the local hostelries, before returning to the city.

Cistercian monks came from prosperous Fountains Abbey in 1148 to found Sawley, which is three miles from Clitheroe and by the river Ribble.

Hundreds of locals came to see it, and 'tarmacadam' became a huge success.This is the Shirburne's village; it was started by the family to house estate workers, and servants from nearby Stonyhurst,

Construction began in 1853 and was finished in 1855, although the viaduct only came into service a year and half later.

Their ships came onto the route in 1894, leaving Belfast at the 'Bangor Jetty' near Queens Bridge. The next year the railway built the long new pier seen here.

To the right is part of Little Germany, a warehouse complex built by German traders who came to the city as cloth merchants in the 1820s and after the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

The brewery chimney came down in 1959, and the remaining building became the site of the bus station. On the outskirts of the town was the Naval Training Ship HMS 'Cabot'.

A bus service came in 1922, and at the end of the road on the right, the Hippodrome Cinema entertained the town from 1929 until June 1962.

Its majesty was attenuated somewhat when the Great Western Railway line from Wolverhampton to Chester came along and was built even higher.

Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae. Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church.

When Henry II came to the throne, he resolved the lack of royal castles in Suffolk by confiscating four of Hugh's.

Two years later the Art Gallery opened, and the whole building came into use.

The Hall was famed for its oak carvings, panelling, plaster work, and handprinted wall papers. In the front garden stood a group of stags cast in bronze and bought at auction by Charles Scarisbrick.

south aisle or Farnham Chapel contains monuments of interest, particularly one to John Farnham of Quorn Hall attributed to Epiphanius Evesham (1570-c1633), whose superb talent should have ensured his fame

James Atherton, who bought the 170 acres of land on this north-east corner of Wirral, had to modify his original grand plans.

The site was excavated in the 1930s by Dame Kathleen Kenyon, but it has managed to remain a comparatively unsung part of Roman history.

Warrington's Town Hall was originally Bank Hall, built between 1749-50 by the world-famous architect James Gibbs as a home for a local businessman, Thomas Patten.

In 1887 Peter and Alexander Campbell decided to relocate their excursion steamer business from Scotland to the relatively untapped Bristol Channel, where they soon came to dominate the market.

Fortunately Richard Ansdell RA, the world-renowned Victorian painter, chose to build a house, Starr Hills, amongst the sandhills; although his hope was for solitude, he brought fame and expansion to the

Marrying the Duke of Monmouth, she sheltered him at Toddington when his scheme to take the throne from James II came unstuck.