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Already 21 years old when he came to Epsom, he had by then earned £25,000 at stud.

Aytoun Street gets its name from Roger Aytoun (known as Spanking Roger), who came to Manchester from Scotland as an officer in the army.

On one day over the Bank Holiday, a total of 74,600 visitors were recorded in one single day, and in the 166 days it was opened, 4.75 million people came to view the delights.

The first brothers of the establishment came directly from Normandy. The remains to be seen today actually date from the abbey's rebuilding in the course of the 13th to the 15th centuries.

Gone from the North Beck were the perch and the grayling; in their place came rats and rubbish.

Note the New Inn on the left of the picture, and how large the name-board of the publican was. The village policeman in his cape stands in the middle of the road.

The stall backs are fine pedimented panels dating from the 17th century, and came from Oxford Cathedral.

However, Trew came up with a different scheme, one that would overcome expensive dredging operations, and the problems caused by several weirs that had been built down-river.

Former residents of the village include the Rowntree family and the Spencers of M & S fame.

In about 1824 he came to a small hamlet of a few hundred people, started his ship-building firm, and set about planning a town.

The lamp tells of a long-established gas works; the railway came not long afterwards. The mile-post on the hill still tells of 70 miles to Dublin, but those are Irish miles.

It will always be connected with Richard Cobden, the reformer, who owned one of the mills here - much of his wealth came from that mill.

At the top of the High Street stands this magnificent three-storey residence built in 1798 for the merchant Samuel Rolles, indicative of the wealth which came to the town in the 18th century

Stourbridge came into existence at a crossing point of the Stour.

Herring, coal and lime also came up the hill from the harbour. The donkeys were even used to collect the refuse.

It is rumoured that the timbers supporting the belfry came from ships of the Armada, but they are more likely to have grown in the nearby woods. The chancel and south aisle were added later.

In a way it is a mystery how such a sumptuous church as St Mary's came to be built in the vill of Hemel Hempstead, especially as no Saxon church appears to have preceded it.

People came from miles around for the Sunday service, and afterwards took lunch in one of the many inns surrounding the church. Broth with dumplings cost one penny a bowl.

Stourbridge came into existence at a crossing point of the Stour.

The last one was recorded in 1908, and the curate of St James's Church in Blake Street, HIndpool (pictured here), with the backing of some local businessmen, provided a much-needed soup kitchen to alleviate

It is fitting to end on one of the most profound reasons for Luton to celebrate recently: the local football club, Luton Town FC, came top of League One and were promoted to the Championship League

In 1844, railway surveyors came to this agricultural village with the aim of linking two main lines to provide a route from West Yorkshire to Lancashire and Cumbria.

Southampton came complete with dry docks, graving docks and a foreign animals wharf.

A few years later, piped water came to the villages and the well became redundant; by 1908 it had fallen into disrepair.