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Caption For Reading, Berkshire County Council Buildings 1912

The ball-finialled gate piers belong to the Crown Court's forecourt, a sedate Italianate stone building somewhat dwarfed by Hall and Warwick's confident Shire Hall built for the County Council.

Caption For Wrexham, High Street C1955

The Golden Lion pub on the right had its earliest licence in 1684, became subdivided into shops but reverted to an inn again by 1740.

Caption For Willesborough, The Windmill 1909

Here we see a fine example of a white weatherboarded Kentish smock mill with a two-storey square brick base and wooden staging for access to the sails.

Caption For Great Chart, High Street 1908

Here we see some fine brick houses, some with decorative bargeboards and Flemish-style gables.

Caption For Wickham, Bridge Street C1950

Bridge Street curves down to the river.

Caption For Monks Eleigh, The Village C1955

In this view the church seems to close the end of the village green.

Caption For Wootton Bassett, High Street C1965

The wide High Street extends for about half a mile.

Caption For Bothenhampton, From The South C1945

The village street at Bothenhampton (middle distance, left to right), with suburbia beyond, seen from the vicinity of Quarry Farm with an apple orchard and thatched cottages above

Caption For Three Bridges, Hazelwick Mill 1906

The village flourmill was powered by two overshot waterwheels.

Caption For Coxhoe, The Cross Roads 1951

The main A177 road south from Shincliffe leads to Coxhoe; it may follow the course of an old Roman road.

Caption For Bothenhampton, The Village C1960

This is the landscape northwards from the limekilns and quarries north of Wych to the Main Street at Bothenhampton (left to right).

Caption For St Margarets Bay, The Undercliff 1918

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea.

Caption For Godalming, Boarden Bridge 1906

Looking south across the River Wey, with a group of children posing for the photographer in front of the wooden Boarden Bridge, the centuries-old crossing point.

Caption For Sherfield On Loddon, The White Hart C1965

The sign in the foreground points to the Army's Central Ammunitions Depot in Bramley Road, which eventually shut in the 1970s.

Caption For Rayleigh, High Road C1955

The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.

Caption For Caister On Sea, The Holiday Camp C1955

For many working people, life after the war was grey and utilitarian.

Caption For Funtington, Hallidays 1965

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester.

Caption For Yetminster, View From Tarks Hill C1960

We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill

Caption For Kibworth Harcourt, Main Street C1955

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

Caption For Holt, High Street 1896

On the left is a fine Victorian shop- front imposed on a plain brick house.