During the oil-boom years that followed 1930, men and families flocked to East Texas to find work in the oilfields and Joinerville's population shot up to 1,500.

Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading as whole families flocked to combine stocking up for Christmas with a day's outing.

In the last decade or so young families have flocked here, attracted by its affordable housing, low crime rate and small-town feel.

French families have flocked here for years, and for good reason.

Well-educated, two-income families are flocking there as never before, drawn by a relative abundance of affordable land.

As the industry grew, workers and their families flocked to Penmaenmawr from all over north-west Wales and beyond.

This was particularly so during summer Saturdays when families flocked south to the beaches of Dorset and the English south coast.

Many Chinese families have flocked to Westchester because its rolling hills are said to have some of the best feng shui outside China.

Almost from the start, lawyers, judges, prominent politicians and families flocked to the restaurants, local people said.

Her loving family and her attendants flocked around her with cries of rapture.