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The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar made by burning sea-shells – this method was used by the Romans.

The 'burn' part of the name comes from the stream which runs through the village.The 'chat' part is either an Old English personal name 'Ceatta', or the word 'ceat', which means 'piece of wet ground

Walmgate has been burned and bombarded with cannon fire, and there was an attempt to undermine it using gunpowder during the siege of York in 1644.

The cyclist on the extreme right is about to pass the Hippodrome cinema, which burned down in October 1955.

Many of these were employed in ironworking, chemical manufacturing and coal-mining, or in Nobel's dynamite works at Ardeer.The novelist John Galt was born in the town in 1779, but Irvine is more famous

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

Inverkip joined in the burnings, becoming a notorious centre for following the Bible's demand that, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

She remembers the two classrooms with old paraffin lamps and tortoise stoves which 'used to get red hot so we burned in the front and shivered in the back'.

However, Queen Boudica, who led the last British revolt against the Romans, soon burned it to the ground.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

The 13th-century church of St Margaret, on the edge of the park, was struck by lightning in 1598 and largely burned to the ground.

'Locomotion' was one of the stars of the S&DR centenary celebrations in 1925, though the old girl was not quite herself; her power came from a hidden petrol engine, and the smoke from her chimney was burning

The statue is of Burns's Highland Mary, who was born at Auchnamore Farm nearby.

However, Queen Boudica, who led the last British revolt against the Romans, soon burned it to the ground.

But in 1727, a company of players gave a performance in a nearby barn.

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

The last mill burned down in 1905, though at one point there had been two mills here - one paper, one wheat.

The theatre burned down in 1926; plays then had to be performed in a local cinema.

The chimney and high building to the right of the church was a clothing factory built in 1852 - it burned down in 1944.

Rawcliffe Hall was nearby, the home of the outrageous Squire Rawcliffe who burned down a windmill one bonfire night.

Inverkip joined in the burnings, becoming a notorious centre for following the Bible's demand that, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

It was burned down around 1900 and given a tiled octagonal roof with dormers and a weather vane.