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The ground floor served as a butter market, hence the name. Upstairs was the Blue Coat Charity School (the name came from the uniforms given to the boys to wear).

Then came houses and shops to create today's village on either side of the A322. Two of its close neighbouring communities have the unusual names of Penny Pot and Donkey Town.

It stands outside St Mary's Catholic Church, which was built by John Lingard, who came to the village in 1811.

The town is famed for its major carpet business, founded in 1755 by Thomas Whitty. Manufacture ceased in 1835 but began again in 1937.

This old market town, famed for its manufacture of nails, is situated on the slopes of the Lickey Hills.

The handcart with its large hamper which was parked by the pavement in picture 76862 (p.42-43), is still in the same spot.

The town's own surveyor eventually came up with a plan for the present theatre.

It was only 10 ft long, ran on 10 inch wheels, and came with front-wheel drive and independent suspension.The battery was in the boot.

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

The turnpike closed in 1872, and the building came down in the 1930s.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

North Walk was destroyed when the Lynton and Barnstaple railway came through in 1898. Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street.