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Said to have the largest number of priest holes of any building in England, the hall is now owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham.

These were the great days of Cleveleys Hydro, with its 18-hole golf course and hydropathic baths.

It was good to get back to the small pleasures in life after the wartime years, and this small hotel seems a popular watering hole near the North Wales coast.

Here, the club professional, Mr Owens, is offering instruction at the first hole.

The family were recusant Catholics, and there are two priest-holes concealed in the house.

James III inherited his father's passion for heavy ordnance and commissioned the construction of Mons Meg, a brute of a weapon for its time that made a great hole in James's defence budget as well as anything

The Turkey Cock c1965 This village watering hole on the road to neighbouring Widford prided itself on being 'the world's most exclusive pub', as evidenced by the signs proclaiming 'No teenager

is over an open common of 52 acres, with nine holes 2,750 yards in length'.

The volume of Raleigh's 'History of the World' has a hole burnt through 104 pages, supposedly caused by the poet Matthew Prior who fell asleep with an unguarded candle nearby.

One of the attractions at Embleton is its golf course, once only 9 holes but now the full 18.

In the 1930s an excavation in the local churchyard unearthed a mass grave in which many of the skulls had a single bullet hole in the forehead – this macabre discovery was dated to the Civil

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

Glorious views across the Severn Vale to the Malvern Hills add to the charms of The Rising Sun, which has long been a favourite watering hole for the racing fraternity.

Before that, the area was called the 'dawb holes'; clay was taken from here to make local bricks.

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

Bore holes were sunk, and during one of these operations salt was struck at a depth of 400 ft.

The history of Hutton-Le-Hole is recalled in the fascinating Folk Museum established in 1964.

The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

Being on the junction of the coast and beach road, it provides a convenient watering-hole for tourists.

The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

This sounds very attractive, but any attackers reaching this point would be caught in a vicious crossfire from murder holes.

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.

Petty Sessions were held in the Swan Hotel, and the public house on the right has been a popular watering-hole since the early 1800s.