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 Bath, Roman Baths 1901 (ref. 46468) | The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures. The name indicates that the waters were sacred to the native goddess Sul, whom the Romans identified with the goddess Minerva. The resultant temple was therefore dedicated to the goddess Sul Minerva. This view shows the Roman Baths after the alterations, reconstructions and new buildings of the architect John Brydon in 1897. BATH, The Sculpture from |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Bristol, the Cathedral 1887 (ref. 20141) | Bristol Cathedral lacks a clerestory and triforium, resulting in the aisles rising to the same height as the nave, a feature which makes Bristol unique among English cathedrals. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bristol, the Cabot Tower 1900 (ref. 45564) | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Clevedon, the Pier 1892 (ref. 31251) | Although less popular than neighbouring Weston-super- Mare, Clevedon's visitors valued its refined quietness. Among its distinguished visitors were Tennyson, Thackeray, Sir John Betjeman and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who came here on homeymoon. The pier at Clevedon was opened in 1869, its light and graceful construction looking far too delicate to survive the storms that periodically wreak havoc along the coast. Here, behind the fishing boats, are some bathing huts, drawn to the water's edge, ready for use. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Caversham, Bridge Street 1908 (ref. 59962) | This photograph shows Bridge Street in the centre of Caversham, at the point where it crosses the Thames. The village became part of Berkshire in 1911, having previously been in neighbouring | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Eton, College Chapel 1895 (ref. 35363) | This magnificent building has a history all of its own. 'No part of Henry VI's scheme for a college was of greater importance than that of a church', according to the Eton guide book. The charter was signed on 11 October 1440, and he laid the foundation stone on Passion Sunday 1441. Thomas Bekynton celebrated his first mass as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 13 October 1443. The King frequently changed his plans: the first building was pulled down when it was near completion for a new and larger one to be started. The choir of the new church was probably finished in about 1479, although it may have been in use earlier. Henry was overthrown in 1461, so building work probably stopped. The College was abolished by Papal Bull in 1463, but this decision was reversed in about 1470 after the college gained royal favour from Edward IV. Provost Waynflete remained chief benefactor until his death in 1484, and he finished off the chapel. Lupton's Chapel was added in 1515, with its north and south-west porches; otherwise the main church remains much as Waynflete built it. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Maidenhead, Clock Tower 1911 (ref. 63802) | 63Southern England BERKSHIRE above: MAIDENHEAD | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Mapledurham, the Mill 1890 (ref. 27091) | The ‘English Versailles’ was built as a gift to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough after his victory over the French at Blenheim in 1704. Designed by Sir John Vanburgh, its building was bedevilled with problems, including the Duke’s fall from grace and a series of disputes between Vanburgh and the Duchess which eventually caused Vanburgh to resign. On Vanburgh’s resignation, Sir Nicholas Hawksmoor took over the building. A later member of the Churchill family was Sir Winston, who wrote: ‘At Blenheim I took two very important decisions: to be born and to marry. I am happily content with the decisions I took on both those occasions’. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Newbury, the Weavers' Cottages and the Canal c1955 (ref. N61028) | A late 19th-century advertisement for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or anglers visiting the neighbourhood'. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Newbury, Donnington Castle c1955 (ref. N61008) | The most famous of all white horses, the Uffington horse lies on the Berkshire Downs near Wantage. Its primitive and stylised design link it, through coinage, with the ancient Iron Age tribe the Atrebates, who ruled the area before the Roman invasion. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Pangbourne, the Bridge and the Old George 1899 (ref. 42998) | 66 BERKSHIRE Southern England above: PANGBOURNE | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Reading, Market Place c1870 (ref. R13001) | This view looks towards St Lawrence's Church. The structure behind the drinking fountain is the Simeon Monument, 'erected and lighted for ever at the expense of Edward Simeon as a mark of affection to his native town' in 1804. A former Governor of the Bank of England, he commissioned the bank's architect Sir John Soane to produce this superb monument. below: READING, The Maiwand | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Reading, the Maiwand Memorial 1890 (ref. 27139) | Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as ‘Weregrave’. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Sandhurst, Royal Military College 1901 (ref. 46823) | St George’s Chapel is the resting place of kings - Henry VIII and Charles I are buried here. The chapel, one of England’s most impressive ecclesiastical buildings, was begun by Edward IV in 1475 and completed during the reign of Henry VIII. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Stoke Poges, Stoke Park 1895 (ref. 35463) | You could be forgiven for thinking Stoke Park looks vaguely like Washington's White House, for there is an American connection. John Penn, who built the mansion in 1789 upon his return from America, was the grandson of William Penn, who had founded the State of Pennsylvania in 1683. Set in parkland by 'Capability' Brown and Humphrey Repton, and now a golf course, the stucco mansion by Nasmith was much improved and enlarged in the 1790s by James Wyatt, who also added the dome. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Wargrave, the Village 1890 (ref. 27177) | Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Windsor, the Castle from Brocas 1890 (ref. 25598) | This view of Windsor is one of the most famous in England, with the great royal castle on its 100ft ridge above the river. This hill is an outlier of the Chiltern chalk rearing through the London clay. It provided a strategic strongpoint, and soon after the Norman Conquest of 1066 a royal castle and later a palace was built there, set amid the royal forest of Windsor. The Brocas is the name given to Eton's riverside meadows on the former Buckinghamshire bank. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Windsor, Lower Ward, St George's Chapel 1895 (ref. 35387) | 59Southern England BERKSHIRE left: WINDSOR, St George's | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Windsor, Town Bridge and Sir Christopher Wren's House c1900 (ref. 35370) | St George's Chapel is the resting place of kings - Henry VIII and Charles I are buried here. The chapel, one of England's most impressive ecclesiastical buildings, was begun by Edward IV in 1475 and completed during the reign of Henry VIII. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Aylesbury, Market Square 1901 (ref. 47461) | Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings salvaged from French chateaux, and other treasures. Rothschild used a French architect, the splendidly-named Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter Destailleur. The work took from 1877 to 1899, and was finished by Destailleur's son, Andre. This view is of the wonderfully ornate and utterly French garden front. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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