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(The song 'Flowers of the Forest' is a lament mourning the many Scottish dead who fell at that battle).

She grieved her loss for the rest of her long life, and the Kingdom mourned with her. She symbolised a nation that was the great maritime empire-builder and the workshop of the world.

Humanity ordained that the soldiers received basic nursing care, but many of them could not be nursed back to health, and died in a foreign land without family to mourn them.

Brother, sisters and friends of Tom Cottingham Edwards- Moss put four stained glass windows in the chapel in 1895 'to preserve the memory of an Etonian so deeply mourned'.

The 1893 reredos is by Pearson, and the church has a remarkable painting of The Mourning of Christ after Van Dyck, the original of which hangs in the Berlin gallery.

Public executions were held in The Square in earlier days, with the bell of St Lawrence's tolling mournfully as the victim was brought before the crowd.

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

The Doric column on the right is a monument to William Wilberforce, who was born in Hull, and was responsible for the abolition of slavery throughout the Empire.

Robert Burns was born here on 25 January 1759. The cottage was rebuilt by the poet's father and later became an inn.

Benjamin Bucknell, the architect who designed Woodchester Park, was born in the village of Rodborough.

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

By the 1950s, with the advent of popular motoring, Broadway was starting to attract car-borne tourists in considerable numbers.

Both the hillside and village are named after the Devon-born churchman who brought Christianity to Germany. The original Saxon church may have been founded by the saint before he went abroad.

Frimley's most famous son is now without doubt the Rugby Union World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson, who was born here in 1979.

The name of this inn is the Hero, after the most famous inhabitant of the Burnhams: Horatio Nelson, born in the rectory of nearby Burnham Thorpe, and later to become England's greatest admiral, and victor

On the final day of the trams, crowds came out to mourn their passing. Many placed pennies on the tracks to be clipped as a souvenir.

Barrow was born in Ulverston in 1764.

Lord Palmerston was born here, and his favourite room looks out over the river.

Born in 1863 near Bridge Farm (1783) was the noted artist John Jackson.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Rothley's most famous son, was born at Rothley Temple on St Crispin's Day, 1800, the son of the anti-slaver, Zachary Macaulay.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

John Skelton, poet laureate and tutor to Henry VIII, was born here and served as rector for 25 years.

Edward Melly was born in Liverpool in 1857, but came to Nuneaton after being educated at Rugby School.

Sir John was born at Dragley Beck in the town, and went on to become Second Secretary to the Admiralty; he decided Napoleon's place of exile.