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Caption For Bildeston, Duke Street C1955

At the end is Red House, a Tudor farmhouse with a brick front of c1715.

Caption For Banbury, High Street C1955

Plaster, timber, brick and stone have all been employed to provide an interesting variety.

Caption For Cropredy, Station Road C1955

We can almost feel the peace and tranquillity typified by a road deserted apart from a solitary horse-drawn delivery cart, standing near an attractive row of brick-built thatched cottages.

Caption For Bildeston, Market Square C1965

The clock tower was built of red and white brick in 1864.

Caption For Swanbridge, The Slipway C1950

The slipway was privately owned, but with perhaps too little investment the reinforced concrete sections had begun to deteriorate and break up, with the metal rods exposed and rusting.

Caption For Horley, Constitutional Club 1905

The building on the left was the Constitutional Club; it was built in a Bedford Park Domestic Revival style around 1890 with steep tiled roofs and much use of brick banding.

Caption For Willingham, The Mill C1955

Cattell's Mill is a black-tarred weatherboarded smock windmill on an octagonal single-storey brick base.

Caption For Towcester, The Pickwick Restaurant C1960

Watling Street has a good range of buildings, mostly dated 18th and 19th century, built in a mix of materials - stone, brick and render.

Caption For Ilfracombe, From Capstone Hill C1875

The imposing yellow brick Gothic Revival building, with 210 rooms and a 1,000ft terrace, put Ilfracombe in the first rank of resorts when it was opened on 15 May 1867.

Caption For Odiham, High Street C1955

Further on, the three-storey brick building has been a draper's shop for some 170 years; its name Commerce House records that this was where Odiham's first bank opened in 1806.

Caption For Billericay, Chapel Street C1965

The substantial building behind the trees is Billericay church, which was rebuilt in 1780, though retaining its fine 15th-century brick tower.

Caption For Tiptree, Messing Maypole Mill C1955

In 1775 a brick tower-mill was built near the crossroads by John Matchett, a Colchester millwright.

Caption For Rye, The Windmill 1912

The brick and white weatherboarded smock mill still stands in Mill Lane on the banks of the River Tillingham, though it is now converted for use as a guest house.

Caption For Marton In Cleveland, Stokesley Road C1965

On the left is the end of a long and attractive terrace of Victorian brick houses, which still survives.

Caption For Melton, The Street C1965

The doors and windows have been altered on the next pair of cottages, whilst the white Rosemary Cottage and the brick gable end beyond remain unchanged.

Caption For Stoneleigh, Birmingham Road C1960

The houses in this scene are typical of Stoneleigh, which retains a pleasant mixture of brick, timber and local red sandstone.

Caption For Reading, Prospect Park 1912

The house, originally a brick one of 1759, was extended and given the Regency stucco villa treatment in the early 19th century.

Caption For Reading, Broad Street 1913

Beyond the bank with its pyramid-roofed tower are the elegant terra cotta and brick buildings flanking the entrance to Queen Victoria Street.

Caption For Liverpool, Ss Adriatic 1890

Laid up at Birkenhead in 1890, she was taken to Preston for breaking up in 1899.

Caption For Beccles, Market Place 1894

The tall brick building was Thomas Self, greengrocer and market gardener; to the left was Clement Poll, butcher.