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This was installed at a cost of £195; it bore the inscription, 'Erected by the Parishioners in memory of Henry Yool of Field Place, Weybridge, 1896'.

Here Queen Victoria was born, brought up and became Queen.

Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

At the close of the 19th century, Alton bore the stamp of an old country market town, with its bustling streets and striking shop fronts.

From Welshmill, going up Innox Hill, you discover this lovely church built in 1864 and designed in early English style by the Frome-born architect C E Giles.

The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born here in a former 16th-century inn, and he lived and worked here for a number of years.

Hanley has two famous sons: the author Arnold Bennett and the aircraft designer Reginald Mitchell were both born in the town.

The name 'Lavengro' is the title of a book by George Borrow, the Victorian writer and linguist: he was born at East Dereham in Norfolk.

A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.

He was born at Upper Bockhampton 2 June 1840 and died at Max Gate Dorchester 11 January 1928.

Passmore Edwards, a wealthy Cornish-born newspaper proprietor, donated the money for this and for other public buildings in Cornwall.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.

The plaque on the wall to the right remembers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, who was born in the town in 1779.

He was born in Stanhill in 1720 and married and settled there; he became a handloom weaver.

Wilfred Owen, who must rank as one of Britain's finest war poets, was born in Oswestry in 1893.

The new Hall was designed by Italian-born architect Joseph Bonomi, and was enlarged and completed by his son Ignatius.

Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and surviving wife, was born here in 1512; at that time the castle was in the hands of Sir Thomas Parr.

A bronze tablet removed from an earlier bridge reads: 'Pray for Humfrey Pakynton Esquyer borne in Stanford which payde for ye workemanshepe and makyng of this brygg the whiche was rered & made the first

The tall cluster of stacks to its right belongs to No 45, The Mansion House, a Georgian house set back from the street front, in which Sir Norman Angell was born, the winner of the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize

Frederick Barker was born at Baslow on 17 March 1808, and followed other members of his family by becoming a churchman.

During this period, a quarter of all children born to mill workers died before reaching their first birthday.

Sir Walter Raleigh was born just outside East Budleigh at Hayes Barton in 1552.

The naval dockyards at Devonport were a prime objective, and the city bore the brunt of what missed the target.

Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist, was born in this cottage in 1840, writing his first few novels sitting on the window ledge of the upstairs right-hand room.