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Repair costs were felt to be unjustifiable, and demolition followed in 1927.

When the half-timbered Queen's Head Inn was being built in Newark in the 16th century, the largest town in the East Midlands was probably Leicester, closely followed by Nottingham.

In return for granting permission to the GWR to build the line across his land, local landowner George Frederick Muntz demanded the provision of a station: houses and shops inevitably followed

He used to preach with the church door open so as not to miss fellow cock fighters passing by on their way to matches at Darlaston Fields - and would cut short his sermon to follow them.

Next on the list were the Caledonian, the Station and the Royal, followed by the somewhat cheaper Royal British, the Douglas and the Bedford.

The Edinburgh Castle we see today is, with a few additions, that built by the Earl of Morton following the siege of 1572.

The path through the park was supposed to follow the route of a Roman road.

The tree line follows the line of the Tenby Pembroke railway track.

On the right is the forecourt of the Congregational Church, which was rebuilt in 1955 following its destruction by a German bomb in 1940.

Today a ring road loosely follows the line where the old city walls once stood, criss crossed with radial roads.

He used to preach with the church door open so as not to miss fellow cock fighters passing by on their way to matches at Darlaston Fields - and would cut short his sermon to follow them.

Salvin returned to Greystoke in 1868 to carry out restoration work following a fire.

The hall was greatly altered in the 17th century, and in 1955, following its restoration, it was officially opened by the US ambassador.

Originally built by Archbishop Islip in the mid 14th century, it was subsequently altered by Archbishop Morton during the following century.

Few streets still follow their original medieval plans, though not all have been lost since 1945.

The bulk of the present castle dates from its rebuilding following a fire in 1816.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

Here Miss Gibson followed the Bishop's suggestion to open a school for high-class girls, and here Nurse Edith Cavell taught.

The village has recently grown enormously following the building of a dual carriageway linking the area with Wrexham and Chester, and many people from here now commute to those towns.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

This is Main Bay, which changed its name to Viking Bay following the arrival in 1949 of a replica Viking ship, the Hugin.

When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.

The hills at the back are Mellor Knott and, to the left, Totridge Fell, along which the old border looped, climbing from the river to follow the watershed.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.