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If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910.

It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn', which means 'land cleared by burning'.

This replaced the old palace, which burned down in 1834.

Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

The river Burn runs through the villages of South and North Creake too.

Secondly, a local farmer called Thomas Higbed was burned at the stake in 1555, on a charge of heresy.

The rectory burned down in the 1950s.

The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.

At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.

There is a local story that as the old church burned the vicar suddenly exclaimed: 'Good gracious, and I have left my false teeth in the vestry!'

Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today.

The current building here dates from 1858, its predecessor having burned down.

Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn.

It was originally a water mill, and was owned by Rankins the Millers when it burned down in April 1965.

This 'superb temple of legislation' in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

It has no direct Scandinavian connection, other than the fact that the name comes from the Norse 'svithinn', which means 'land cleared by burning'.

The following year, Hertford was back in Scotland, burning five market towns, sacking 243 villages, and laying waste to crops.

left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque inside the store) and Joan Burns

This is the lower reach of the old Liskeard and Looe Canal; it was still used occasionally at this date to carry sea sand and limestone for burning in the kilns at Sandplace.

The ironmonger's sold Witchem's firelighters among other products - these must have contributed to the conflagration when the building was burned to the ground in 1920.

THE ACT OF UNION in 1707 was bitterly reviled at the time, and even for many years afterwards - Robert Burns echoed popular sentiment when he dismissed the Scottish commissioners with the lines

Visit the church at Yateley, and have a look at the glass in the 13th- century east window: it depicts Peter and John, and is the work of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones