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Many Northumberland resorts are famed for the quality of their sands, but alas for Newbiggin - both pollution and wave action have taken their toll.

In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach.

The insubstantial building next door lasted well into the 1980s, where the best fish suppers in town came from the Fresh Fry.

The skill of Flemish weavers who came to Norfolk was responsible for the enormous expansion of the trade.

Then came machines, and the trade disintegrated.

George Ewart Evans came to live in Blaxhall in 1948, when his wife became headmistress.

Rothwell's history dates back to long before the Danish invasion of the Dark Ages. 4,000 years ago Bronze Age settlers came to this area, followed by the Romans.

In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach.

The castle came into the hands of the Duchy of Cornwall at the time of the Black Prince.

The scene is one mile east of the village - the sign shows Lloyd George, who came to live in Churt in 1921 and left in 1944, the year before his death. His house, Bron y de, formerly stood nearby.

The Dolmetsch family came to Haslemere in the 1920s, and the Dolmetsch music festival was established by Arnold Dolmetsch in 1925 to perform early music.

They came originally in the famous Margate 'hoys', and later by steam packet.

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

It was to the wrought iron railings outside the front entrance of the municipal buildings that relatives of patients in the isolation hospital came for news of their loved ones.

After the opening of the railway from London to Brighton in 1841, the coaching era came quickly to a close.

This would have come from the local chalk downs, and the stone for the windows, tracery and doorways perhaps came from Bentley, some five miles to the south.

on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that many Londoners came

Old-fashioned, coach-built prams were still very much in evidence in 1965, though they were gradually rendered redundant as car ownership increased and foldaway buggies came into their own.

The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire. It was possibly at this house that the plans were made for constructing the Bedford Level.

The 'Cali' has satisfied the thirst of generations of holidaymakers, but before the tourists came it served the community of beachmen who lived here from 1850 onwards.

Here we are looking back towards the way we came. In the centre the church stands above the distant houses.

When the railway came in 1850, it opened up the voracious wholesale markets of London and the Midlands and brought a measure of solid prosperity to the community.

In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family.

Copp`s coaching trips then became Copp`s Silver Cars, and competition came from W H Gubb`s Lucky Violet charabancs.