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Newstead was inherited by the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet Lord Byron in 1798 as a virtual ruin, and he sold it in 1817.

The pub occupies a picturesque setting on the crown of the hill, and is named after the leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

This stage was built to replace an original from 1835; it lasted until 1909, when it was replaced.

In spite of its large empire, Britain was badly prepared for war.

The vast east window is the biggest in England.

Portreath was little more than a fishing village until it was chosen by Francis Basset (later Lord de Dunstanville) as an ideal location from which to ship copper ore from the mines around Redruth

In the 19th century the church was heavily 'restored and improved in a hearty manner' by Sir George Gilbert Scott, a nationally famous architect, but the building still retains its medieval appearance

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Algitha Road was officially opened on 13 July 1882, the fourth of that denomination in Skegness.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.

On 4 January 1859 the railway arrived; it was to join Godalming and Havant stations, and as a consequence, it was possible to travel from London Waterloo to Portsmouth direct.

In 1300 Guy de Bello Campo, Earl of Warwick, obtained a charter so that a market could be held on each Tuesday and for an annual fair to be held on the eve of Holy Trinity (5 June, according to

Many people approached their houses by grass tracks, and drew water from a well or carried buckets to a standpipe (sometimes a half-mile away); they cooked by paraffin or coal and lit their homes

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

Mention Catterick to most people and they will immediately think of the great army garrison, which is actually situated four miles from the town itself.

Whickam is not noted for much save that it was the birthplace in 1748 of William Shield, musician and composer, who rose to become the Master of the King's Music.

In May 1900, during the Boer War, Mafeking in South Africa was relieved after being defended by the future Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell for 215 days.

The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond.

One suspects that Frith's photos of the river shown on these pages may have been commissioned by Mr Leroy to sell to his customers - he appears in this one too, in a Canadian canoe, fashionable at

Arrowe Park is quite a few miles from the centre of Birkenhead.

There was even a bomb plot!

Between 1900 and 1905 Vickers built Vickerstown on Walney Island, an estate to house shipyard workers.

We are looking at Parliament Square from an upstairs window on the corner of Parliament Street abd Bridge Street during the First World War.