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This resulted in the town flooding, leaving 35 people dead.

The impressive war memorial records the names of the dead of both World Wars of the 20th century.

Will's punishment was to be added to the press gang quota.

The roofed building has been replaced by the Ayscoughfee Café, and the gardens include an impressive war memorial to Spalding's dead of both wars.

The barons were destroyed, and both Simon de Montfort and his son were among the dead. Shortly afterwards Henley was sacked and burnt.

Taken from close to the Spaniards pub, this view looks along the dead straight link between North End Way and Hampstead Lane, which is still recognisable.

The road from Great Ellingham to Hingham runs dead straight for over half a mile, an unusual survival of an open-field boundary from the Middle Ages.

Winsford's granite cross commemorates the dead of both World Wars.

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

It lasted only 15 minutes or so but it left over 50 Parliamentary troopers dead, some of them drowned in the Teme.

The bell on the sign bears the motto 'I call for the living, I toll for the dead, I scatter the lightning'.

The traders' names have now changed, but many are still open fronted and thriving, doubtless awaiting the dead hand of EC regulations to sanitise them.

An old custom at Formby was the carrying of a corpse three times round the Godstone in the belief that it prevented the dead from coming back to haunt their relatives.

The village purchased it in 1223 and immediately miraculous cures began to happen, with dead people being restored to life. The same year Henry III visited the priory and granted the village a fair.

The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.

The Cenotaph replaced a temporary plaster memorial to the dead of the Great War which had been erected on the site for the Victory Parade in 1919.

In 1923 the town commemorated its dead of the Great War by building this fine war memorial. The water pump has gone, and the Norfolk Arms hotel apparently has a side line in motor car repairs.

The names of the 27 people who were killed in the 1941 bombing raid are about to be added to the memorial.

It contained one chamber for the dead and was originally surrounded by a large oval mound; this was last recorded in the 19th century, but has now been obliterated by man and time.

We now know that the area was not dead but merely dormant.

Although our long-dead photographer leaves us with no more information than that given, this is almost certainly another view of the Rogerstone Fourteen locks.

From 1892 this pathway and steps was known locally as 'Dead House Steps'.

To the right of the picture, the present-day clock tower, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1926, is yet to be added.

In 1170 the four knights who murdered Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral gathered here before carrying out their deadly deed.