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This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.
Reputedly England's most haunted village, and a market town in the time of Henry III, Prestbury is now a residential suburb of Cheltenham.
The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.
Now a National Trust property and open as a museum, this stone, brick and timber building is said to be the smallest town hall in Britain.
Puriton's brick and tile industry has now gone, but Middle Street is much the same today.
Whitworth Brothers Flour Mills stand beside the A509 London Road bridge.
Cambridge's first women's college started out in Hitchin in 1869, and was moved to Girton three years later - sufficiently far removed from Cambridge and the temptations of its male students.
Cambridge's first women's college started out in Hitchin in 1869, and was moved to Girton three years later - sufficiently far removed from Cambridge and the temptations of its male students.
Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.
Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone.
Salisbury was founded in the 13th century: there was no earlier settlement here, consequently the wide streets were laid out on a grid pattern.
The old hospital (1576) on the right, so called since it performed that function during the Napoleonic Wars, forms the main subject of this early picture of the most photographed of Rye's cobbled
This mid 18th-century post mill has 'I Swan 1749', 'W Bedwell' and 'John Swan 1754' carved on the beams.
Once a major ironworking centre, this village also boasts the first Fuggle hops to be grown.
This small village sits between the sea and fields of bright laven- der.
Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk
Doddington receives many visitors, for Doddington Hall, although privately owned, is often open to the public.
He put money, new ships and new life into the company, and brought in the right partners and associates to found the successful business.
Marsh Windmill is a large Fylde-type brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail.
The late 17th-century tower with its liberal use of salvaged Roman brick fell in the 17th century.
