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Queen Elizabeth came to stay here in 1561.

At one time, many areas were served by vans such as these, an effective 'home delivery' service provided by butchers, greengrocers, bakers and others, long before the Internet came along.

Depending where you came from, the ride in the middle of picture was known as a copper's helmet, and the near- est one on the left was called the nut cracker.

The motte was surrounded by a ditch, but this came within the castle perimeter when the gate tower was built, so a second ditch was excavated.

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road

The hotel was one of the landmarks of Nottingham for centuries and it is a matter of conjecture how it came by its unusual name.

Of course, the story would be different when a heatwave came along!

The castle came into the hands of the Duchy of Cornwall at the time of the Black Prince.

The scene is one mile east of the village - the sign shows Lloyd George, who came to live in Churt in 1921 and left in 1944, the year before his death.

The Dolmetsch family came to Haslemere in the 1920s, and the Dolmetsch music festival was established by Arnold Dolmetsch in 1925 to perform early music.

It was to the wrought iron railings outside the front entrance of the municipal buildings that relatives of patients in the isolation hospital came for news of their loved ones.

They came originally in the famous Margate 'hoys', and later by steam packet.

Edward Melly was born in Liverpool in 1857, but came to Nuneaton after being educated at Rugby School.

The lighthouse came into service in 1859 and was manned for many years, but is now automated.

The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912.

It came into being 200 years ago when granite was being quarried.

These barracks were built about three years after the Infantry Barracks, but the construction came under much criticism.

It is interesting to note that the tide came up to this point when the church was built.

It is a town full of history - the founder of Yale University in the US (Elihu Yale), came from the Wrexham area, and is buried at St Giles's church.

No longer reliant on a hazardous route across the sands, the town quickly grew, catering for the well-to-do, who came here to live or take their holidays.

Then, as today, horse-drawn carriage rides were popular, as were the electric trams, which were the first operating anywhere in the country and came into service along the promenade in 1885.

Without automatic machines, it was an all-day job; washing, rinsing, blueing and mangling, and then pegging out before the rain came.

It is claimed that the Magna Carta was written on Havant parchment, and the parchment used for the 1919 Treaty of Versailles came from here.