Places Added by Alan Newman

The family tradition is that this Civil War veteran was part of Lincoln's guard detail on the day he was shot.

A spectacular pothole (pit cave) in The Yorkshire Dales, the home of British vertical cave exploration.

The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

This popular shopping mall and eatery once provided scant comfort to sick colonials and seafarers

An example of early 20th century gender segregation

One of the last remnants of an ancient town wall

Before this fine stone viaduct was built, trains ran across a rather wobbly wooden trestle, and the original abutments are still there.

The farmland on the old Isle of Axholme is one of only 4 places in the UK where the medieval practice of strip farming still persists.

Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.

This is not a heritage railway, but when the new high speed line fully opens in 2032, at least part of this magnificent and historic line should be preserved.

This former monastery or convent is now, in part, a boutique hotel, but the church linked to it is intact.

This tranquil urban park has a violent history.

The bridge which will eventually overcome the barrier to the unification of two heritage railway lines which both claim the Great Central Railway's illustrious name

Locals insist that this is the actual jetty where St. Paul tied up his vessel on his overnight visit to the island.

This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.

This roundabout, outside an important UK garrison town, used to be the route of an important military railway and it is now commemorated with a magnificent locomotive sculpture

Downham Market, Norfolk, is called Gingerbread Town because of its distinctive architecture. Do not confuse it with Market Drayton in Shropshire, which is actually famous for its manufacturing of gingerbread

A 1960s church with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof and an amazing stained glass window

An artistic reminder of the historic importance of this town's trade with Hanseatic partners from the Baltic and the North Sea

Magnificent statue which commemorates a local girl who either starved or fell to her death whilst waiting for her lost love or her lost child, depending on which legend you believe

An abandoned settlement where the workers were driven away by pollution from their own employment

This old fortification was converted to an "orphanage" in the 1940s, but now is a derelict and reputedly haunted ruin, resisting attempts to reuse it

The place where the Spanish 2nd Republic, essentially, came to an end