Captions

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Caption For Hastings, The Pier 1890

The pier, designed by Eugenius Birch, opened in 1872.

Caption For Stroud, High Street C1955

This business, founded in the 19th century, was formerly Birch's, and by 1885 Monaghan's.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1910

Designed by Eugenius Birch, the doyen of pier architects, the pier opened in 1870.

Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1901

Eastbourne's pier, designed by Eugenius Birch, opened in 1872.

Caption For Wyre Forest, 2003

Common oak, silver birch, sweet chestnut and buckthorn, loved by the Brimstone butterfly, abound in Wyre Forest, along with Norway spruce.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Grange, Amersham Hill 2005

Walter Birch was among the first to build really large factories.

Caption For Hove, St Andrew's Church C1960

The ornate clock tower and gateway were added in 1874 to designs by the famous pier designer Eugenius Birch.

Caption For Hailsham, The Church C1965

At the left is a silver birch, which also survives today.

Caption For Chiddingly, Muddles Green C1955

All four buildings in this view are Victorian: the one on the left, Birch Cottage, is of the 1860s, and the one behind the telephone pole, Jubilee Cottage, is dated 1887, while the others are of about

Caption For Horsted Keynes, The Green And Village Shop C1965

There are connections with the Sussex iron industry, for an ironmaster once lived here.The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister.

Caption For Eastbourne, Parade And Bandstand 1899

This was by Eugenius Birch, who also designed Brighton's West Pier, and was completed in 1872.

Caption For Hailsham, St Mary's Church C1955

Out to the left is the Vicarage Field shopping mall, while beyond the silver birch is the church hall extension opened in 1985.

Caption For Ollerton, Sherwood Forest C1955

This view is in the Sherwood Forest Country Park, an area of 450 acres with many of the best surviving ancient oak trees amid silver birch, younger oaks and bracken.

Caption For Epsom, Market, High Street 2005

They camped in the grounds of a house in Church Street called Silver Birches, long since demolished.

Caption For Horsted Keynes, The Green And Village Shop C1965

The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister.

Caption For Middleham, Memorial School 1914

The Memorial School, opposite the majestic Middleham Castle (c1180), was erected in memory of Rector James Birch.

Caption For Ware, The Priory 1925

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was given as a private house to Thomas Birch, one of the yeoman of the Crown.

Caption For Guisborough, Church And War Memorial 1932

The silver birches (left) have grown considerably over the 19 years between the two photographs.

Caption For Rugby, The School Quadrangle 1922

Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.

Caption For Rugby, The School Cloisters 1922

Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.