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Friendly societies began here at the Five Bells Inn in 1782.The Heritage is a specialised health care institution for disabled children with buildings in several locations around the area.

In the 1120s de Clinton built Kenilworth's famous castle, which began life as a fairly basic motte and bailey.

St Margaret's began as a leper hospital, possibly founded by Robert Fitz-Parnell, himself a leper, whose brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, held Kingston Manor from 1190 to 1204.

Redevelopment of Daventry began in the early sixties under a scheme to house Birmingham overspill population.

In 1904, two thousand workmen began digging a deep water harbour which took an army of Irish navvies seven years to complete.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871-72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

As with other coastal locations, Church Town began to attract visitors wishing to take the sea-air and engage in a little sea-bathing; accommodation was offered by the village's two inns, the Griffin and

The cathedral was rebuilt in the 12th century, and began to assume the form we see it in today.

Its development from a little village straggling up a single high street began in 1870. However, it has an ancient lineage, and the Romans established a major settlement nearby.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before it was completed.

Imeson was one of the leading figures in the town's entertainment business; his involvement with the theatre began in 1866, when he started building the Royal Albert Theatre.

To offset this, other trades began to expand and diversify, and new factories opened. Wallasey Docks became the main grain importing area for Merseyside.

The site was extensively 'tidied' and serious archaeological work began. The Avebury we see today owes its survival to these excavations.

Work began in 1832, but the project ran into problems owing to a serious underestimate by the builders, who eventually went bankrupt.As the architects had agreed to underwrite the builders, they

The building is typical of the old coach-building businesses that became garages when motor cars began to replace horse power.

Its development as a holiday resort began with the coming of the railway, and most of the buildings here date from after that time. Note the first-floor bay windows.

Construction began in 1887.

The Royal Naval Hospital, a counterpart to the Chelsea Hospital for soldiers, began as a rebuild of Greenwich Palace by Charles II in the 1660s, but it changed direction in the 1690s.

It was not until the early 18th century that the benefits of the large-scale drainage schemes of the previous century began to be felt.

Sir Edward Goschen was British Ambassador in Berlin in 1914 when the war began. Seacox Park has a magnificent collection of trees and shrubs.

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.

The gabled HSBC next door began as the London and Provincial Bank in 1908. The shop with awnings was Alex Martin's, a draper's.

On 18 July 1844 the London and North Western Railway Company began work to extend the railway from Lancaster to Carlisle.

As with other coastal locations, Church Town began to attract visitors wishing to take the sea-air and engage in a little sea-bathing; accommodation was offered by the village's two inns, the Griffin