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The tower bears an important plaque warning bell ringers from practising during thunderstorms. Next door to the church stood the Robin Hood and Little John public house.

On one door in the Cathedral lead shot can still be seen; it bears witness to the citizens' successful defence against the Reformation zealots who would have destroyed it.

The Ford Thames van bears a DD Gloucestershire registration; behind it we can just see the back of the latest Thames van which superseded it.

The two-storey office ranges screen the vast factory behind, in which bearings and specialist steel castings and fabrications are made (Northampton was not just boot and shoe facto- ries).

The old vicarage and its two adjacent properties are known locally as the 'Three Bears.' None of the other buildings owns up to being Goldilocks!

A stray German bomb fell here in 1941 after a raid on Teesside, and completely destroyed the White Bear Inn.

The fine saloon car in the foreground, probably a year-old Morris 20, bearing the registration number YU6523, appears in many contemporary photographs of Stanstead Abbots - does it still survive today?

Providing bearings for today's ships is the BBC local radio transmitter mast next to Fort Paull.

Peter's Church, whose solid tower is visible peeking out from behind the building bearing a painted advertisement for the now defunct Home & Colonial store.

The steps we see today are about 200 years old, and were probably built by local and itinerant labourers.

They are buried in seven graves here around the Husker Monument, which bears the inscription 'Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is'.

Villagers cut rushes growing by the River Wyre; rushes were made into rush lights or stored in readiness for the rush cart, which was led in procession twice a year for the strewing of fresh rushes in

The 900-year-old nave measures 61m long, 12m wide and 22m high. Its massive columns support the impressive stone-ribbed vaulted roof, the earliest example of rib vaulting in Europe.

The luxuriant creeper largely conceals its red brick exterior, but its crowning pediment proudly bears a coat of arms embraced by palm fronds.

Many souvenirs and postcards of the late 19th and early 20th centuries bear the legend 'the abbey'.

There can be very few wedding photographs taken between 1901 and 1975 that do not bear their signature.

The building has been an inn since 1775; the name no doubt refers to the cruel practice of bear baiting, a common entertainment in these days.

Commenting on the town's appearance, the Directory says that 'its whole appearance [is] indicating recent improvements, and bearing evidence of the good taste of its inhabitants.

The 17th-century screen bears the Royal arms of James I and those of the Fortescue family, lords of the manor, whose 15th-century manor house rose behind the church.

Dunnottar was equipped for artillery, though the military efficiency of the frontal battery is open to question, as the guns could not be brought to bear on the entrance.

Plans to establish a tramway on the old Luton to Dunstable line have so far failed to bear fruit.

Plans to establish a tramway on the old Luton to Dunstable line have so far failed to bear fruit.

It may be a tribute to the donor. St Chad's Church is of similar age to St Mary's, and may at one time have been a larger structure than it is today.

It may be a tribute to the donor. St Chad's Church is of similar age to St Mary's, and may at one time have been a larger structure than it is today.