All news by author: Lee Grimsditch

As a schoolboy, when asked to write what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered: "When I leave school I should like to be the Official Executioner."

Perched on a hill near Hollingworth Lake, Rochdale, stands St Hilda’s CE Mission - built by a small band of Catholics in the 1870s before being abandoned and left to crumble

Pontins Blackpool, which was in Lytham St Anne in Lancashire, was outlived by holiday parks in Southport, Prestatyn and Morecambe despite surviving a tragic air disaster

Following its closure, the building was taken over a number of times by a community of squatters who said they had big plans to bring the building back into use

Things could get so bad at notorious boozer The Bow and Arrow that comedian and actor Ricky Tomlinson fled during one of his early career gigs after a gun was pulled on him mid-show

Liverpool Museum told Jeff Pearce it was "one of the greatest ever finds in Liverpool's city centre" after he discovered something he never could have expected in an old clothes shop