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Three years after William Cobbett rode through this stretch of countryside in August 1823, the Dale family came to Aldhurst Farm.

Vessels collided with the bridge quite frequently, but the fatal blow came in October 1960.

Southport local authority came to the rescue in 1932, when financial difficulties were about to force a sale to a housing development company.

Bunney's was the shop for unusual gifts and imported goods from all over the world, which came to Britain via Liverpool Docks.

Sir Joseph came from the nearby village of Revesby, and the plants he brought back from his journey with Captain Cook formed Kew Gardens.

For some 100 years it was the residence of successive members of one family: James Brooks came to Odiham in 1818 to join an attorney's partnership, and his descendants continued as solicitors in

During the Second World War, Mrs Armitage, who had taken to using her pony and trap to save petrol, would tie the pony up to the pump when she came down to the village to shop, never mind

He in his turn was expelled in 1660, and Thomas Wright came back, just for one year, as he died in 1661.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

Stone came from local quarries within a short distance from here, and even the clay for bricks was found on his land.

Things came to a head in 1706 when the Excise launched a full investigation of the port over alleged customs avoidance.

In the hey- day of the woollen industry, shepherds and their families came from Wales to live here and tend sheep in the surrounding countryside.

Before the factory came, there was nothing here but farmland, moorland and Fenton Cawthorne's tower.

Regular bus services came about rapidly; Victoria Road was the main route. It was once known as Ramper, a high dyke built (along with the draining of Thornton Marsh) to keep back the sea.

Dorothy Wordsworth described the visit she made with her poet brother to the loch: 'We came up to that little lake, and saw it before us in its true shape in the cheerful sunshine.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842 and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.

Because so much change has taken place, the Bull Ring was not recognisable; when I asked where it was, the answer came 'You're standing in it !'

The estate was held in the 12th century by Sir Robert Croc of Neilston, and it is from him that the castle derives its name.

Most of the clay came from Fowey, Par or Charlestown; the traffic remained one of the last strongholds of coastal merchant sailing ships well into the 20th century.

The town developed as a Victorian watering hole for the well-to-do, especially after the railway came in 1863, but in post-war years it has been the destination for mass-tourism, mainly from the south

Stone came from the Crosland Hill quarry. During renovations in 1960 the top section was removed, and the tower now stands at a height of 996.7 feet above sea level.

Despite the fact that they were supposed to be on the same side when it came to defending the Borders, the Herons of Ford and the Manners of Etal did not always see eye-to-eye.

Small Hythe was a harbour as late as the 16th century, when the sea came up this far from Rye. The long and spruce black and white cottage we see here was home to the harbourmaster.