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The name Granny's Bay came later, and Commonside fishermen used Granny's Dock.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

Situated away from major routes, the town has derived its fame from the Battle of 1485, when Henry Tudor, later Henry VII, defeated Richard III on Ambion Hill to its south.

Consequently, the police only came to Loughborough eight years after most of the rest of Leicestershire.

Predictably, the planners came up with a scheme for knocking down most of Church Street and replacing it with flats (the proposed scheme would also have included demolishing the Queen's Head and

Then at the end of the 19th century there came a period of great change for south-east Essex.

other hand, would probably still be the single-street market town it used to be, had not its meteoric development as a fashionable spa been kick-started when George III and the royal house- hold came

The Duke of Wellington came to partake, and recommended the water to his officers. Cheltenham's future was assured.

This old Basildon road name came from the soft, sticky London clay to which the road reverted whenever it rained.

At the same time a wealthy shipper died, and his widow asked for a church to be built in his memory.

The Duke of Wellington came to partake, and recommended the water to his officers. Cheltenham's future was assured.

J N Kellet was next door, and then came the White Bull Hotel, facing the Black Bull; in 1823, when the licence was renewed, no cock fighting or bull and bear baiting was allowed to take place in the square

They felt a need to fill 'The Surrey wilderness', an area of under-representation for Methodism, and significant funding came from a fund set up by Hugh Price Hughes: unfortunately, he died before

Thus the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire came into being.

Why have they left us no clues to tell us where they came from? Did they come from miles around to bury the ashes of their dead princes here?

Thus the Bonar Law Memorial College came into being, a residential college for the study of social and political science.

The mission house remained a place of worship well into the 20th century; it was under the pastoral care of the rector of Guisborough, and he or one of his curates came up to the village to hold services

Furthermore, Jack Straw, a priest who led Wat Tyler's group to invade London, originally came from Fobbing.

The clock on the tower came from Amesbury Abbey nearby - it was given to the church in 1971. Its mechanism is 15th- century, but it was altered to take a pendulum.

When the Romans came to Britain in AD 43, they placed their seat of government at Camulodunum (Colchester).

Besides connections with Arthur, there is a story that Joseph of Arimathea, in whose tomb Jesus was buried, came here as a trader and brought the Glastonbury Thorn.

Dame Laura Knight sketched them often in the 1920s, visiting the Derby in a Rolls- Royce because it had a roof high enough to accommodate an easel inside.

Outside the town wall, many streets were laid out principally to provide lodging houses for the many visitors who came to the town once Tenby became part of the wider rail network.

Life came back to the big house in 1790, when it was bought by John Trotter, an army contractor from Soho, who had a new manor house built on the site.