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Work began in the late 1790s, when William Henry Lambton had an old castle on the site dismantled.

Following the passing of the Technical Act of 1889, the Corporation began this fine building in Hopwood Lane; it was completed in 1895.

This parade was built in the years prior to the Second World War, as Pitsea's houses began to inch along Rectory Road.

Village stores soon began to cater for the new motorised tourist in the first affluent decade of peace.

Electric trams began running in Bournemouth on 23 July 1902, though they were eventually given up in favour of electric trolley-buses.

By the 1950s the town of Ringwood began to grow dramatically, being within commuting distance of places of employment such as Bournemouth.

With New Town status and under the aegis of the Development Corporation, Bracknell began to expand rapidly.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

It was one of the first colleges to be built in red brick at the time when the rather expensive fashion of imported stone began to decline.

Before the Great War, Amble was one of Northumberland's smaller fishing ports; the biggest catches tended to be landed at North Shields, Blyth and Newbiggin.

Missionaries from Ireland began arriving in the 5th century; it is possible that St Patrick himself founded the church on St Patrick's Isle, Peel.

The abbey's cleaning and restoration programme began in the 1950s. Here the porch gleams in contrast with the rest of the west end's sooty facade.

It was one of the first colleges to be built in red brick at the time when the rather expensive fashion of imported stone began to decline.

The hotel began its life in Tudor times as the Three Cups Tavern, before becoming the London Hotel and then the County Hotel.

Built in the thirteenth century, it was in a ruinous state in 1908 when the Corporation began its restoration, which unfortunately took away most of its character.

The Hayride, which takes place in Walkington on the third Sunday in June, began after the Second World War.

The two towns are the places where the jet-age began: Sir Frank Whittle was designing and testing in the area from 1937.

Once one of the principal fortresses of the Bishops of Durham, Auckland's transformation into a palatial residence began in 1661 when Bishop John Cosin had the 12th-century Great Hall remodelled: he added

So too did William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner, who began to poison his last victim, John Cook, while they both stayed here.

Building work began in 1573, in the reign of Elizabeth I, and the house has been the home of the Spencer family ever since.

It was unlived in from 1740 for nearly 200 years; then sympathatic restoration began in 1912, taking some 20 years to complete. In the last century it was used as a location by film producers.

In 1853, nearly 200 years later, the Act was repeated and an export trade began.

Budleigh really began to grow just after the Napoleonic wars, when it became popular as a genteel retreat.

The suburbs of Bournemouth, which have now sprawled out into the neighbouring countryside, began with the early construction of villa residences, each with its own garden - as suggested by Dr Granville