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Caption For Chepstow, The Town Gate 1925

The notice on the arch restricts the speed of all motors to 6 miles per hour through the arch, while the poster beside it is advertising a fete.

Caption For London, Marble Arch C1890

Marble Arch, in the corner of the picture, was placed in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in 1851.

Caption For Guisborough, The Priory 1891

Again we still see the old font in front of the priory arch and a gravel path to the right, long since disappeared, which presumably led to the greenhouse shown in the view of 1885.

Caption For London, Euston Square C1950

Immediately to the left are the trees in Euston Square, where the stonework of the Euston Arch is just visible.

Caption For Ebbw Vale, The Arches C1955

This stone arch was built in 1869 to carry raw materials to the iron furnaces.

Caption For London, The Admiralty Arch C1920

Admiralty Arch at the far end of the Mall was completed in 1910 as part of the Victoria Memorial scheme; Sir Aston Webb was the architect of both the arch and the memorial.

Caption For Bidford On Avon, Bridge 1910

Noted for its irregular arches, the bridge dates mainly from the 15th century, but some parts are thought to be much older.

Caption For Bathpool, The Bridge 1902

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

Caption For Wimborne, Canford Bridge 1904

As well as its three main arches, the bridge also has six smaller flood arches across the fields on the south bank.

Caption For Calne, St Mary's Church C1955

This view of the north door shows the two-arched doorway with hood mould.

Caption For Shepton Mallet, The Cross 1899

The fine market cross at the entrance to the Market Place has an elaborate medieval polygonal centre, with three storeys of arched niches; the crocketed pinnacle emerges from a plainer arched

Caption For Potton, Market Square C1955

Potton Clock House was opened in 1955, replacing a much older building.

Caption For Maidenhead, King Street 1904

This is a much-changed scene along the road leading to Maidenhead Station, for virtually nothing now survives of King Street's earlier buildings.

Caption For Long Melford, Church 1904

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

Caption For Staines, The Bridge 1907

The refined and somewhat austere rusticated three-arch bridge of 1829-32 by John Rennie, the architect of old Waterloo Bridge, has been marred by a widening in 1958 in which footways were cantilevered

Caption For Glaisdale, Beggars Bridge C1965

The elegant, high-arched Beggars Bridge at Glaisdale is dated 1619, and carries the packhorse route from Glaisdale to Whitby across the River Esk.

Caption For Northampton, St Peter's Church Norman Arch 1922

The carving exudes an almost barbaric air: the capitals are full of curi- ous foliage inhabited by mythical winged creatures, writhing figures and animals, and the arches are a profusion of geometric

Caption For Henley On Thames, The River C1955

William Hayward built the five-arched Henley Bridge in 1786 to replace an earlier wooden structure that had been swept away by floods.

Caption For Launceston, The Arch C1960

With the introduction of the one-way system, traffic now travels only out of town through the arch.

Caption For Southampton, Bargate 1908

Up until the 1930s, specially designed trams with dome-shaped tops to fit the arch travelled through Bargate.