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In 1906, Fletcher Dodd began to provide holidays for groups of socialists from the East End of London in the grounds of his house on Ormesby Road.

This is a view from Bidston Hill, which was declared a place to be kept free of development when Birkenhead and the surrounding towns and villages began to grow.

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

In 1902 work began on the King Edward Dock; an 875ft graving dock was added, and an oil tank farm comprising 27 storage tanks was completed in 1911.

He won the Battle of the Falklands in 1914, and also began the setting up of a fund to preserve the 'Victory' in 1920.

The castle began its life as a far humbler structure than we enjoy today, once described as "... a slender fortress of stakes and earth".

It began a new life as Wat Tyler Country Park in 1984.

Then building began in earnest as visitors flocked to enjoy its safe, sandy beach and bracing cliff-top walks.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

A new graving dock was built in the early 1870s and work on the James Watt Dock began in 1881. In this view, we see the smoking chimneypots of Greenock and the entrance to Gare Loch.

After the First World War, Aylesbury began developing along the arterial routes into the town.

Construction began in 1542 and was completed by 1550, using stone salvaged from the Benedictine priory.

It began a new life as Wat Tyler Country Park in 1984.

After buying the farmhouse of Townlands Farm in 1875, Charles Kempe promptly began to enlarge the property in a style in keeping with the existing small house.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

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

The Civic Centre in Connah's Quay, one of several buildings laid out as a formal civic area, was began in 1960, with the stone being laid by the steel magnate John F Summers; the Summers

The erection of the stone shell keep began about 1156; it underwent extensive remodelling during the 14th century, when Thomas, third Lord Berkeley, had two of the semi-circular bastions replaced and two

Dawlish began as two discreet hamlets, one inland by the parish church and another on the seashore, but quickly grew as the first visitors arrived to holiday in the late 18th century.

The building of the present abbey began in 1077 when Paul de Caen, a Norman abbot, set about erecting the second longest church in Britain.

When the English Civil War began in 1642, Parliamentary troops were garrisoned in Coleford.

Nearby Yeadon Airport began as the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club in 1933, and in the Second World War it was used as a test site for Lancaster bombers. Jet planes arrived in 1984.

Lord Armstrong began building Cragside in the 1860s; he also built almshouses in the town (1896) as well as the Addycombe cottages (1873) for retired staff from his estate.