Captions

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Caption For Gilling West, Village 1913

We are looking east towards the bridge over the beck. The

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge.

Caption For Freshwater Bay, The Beach C1965

Tennyson's gaunt figure could often be seen walking the beach in Victorian times.

Caption For Freshwater Bay, The Beach C1965

Tennyson's gaunt figure could often be seen walking the beach in Victorian times.

Caption For Great Meols, The Dinghy Slipway C1965

Cars are neatly parked in driveways; visitors' vehicles are kept firmly on the other side of the municipal green and flower beds; and their owners are enjoying a quiet kick-about to break the

Caption For Caversham, From Caversham Heights 1908

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

Caption For Uppingham, School Chapel C1965

Between 1964 and 1965 the north side of the chapel was hidden by a modern extension with an ugly brick gable.

Caption For Whitchurch, Oving Road C1955

Oving Road leads west uphill from the north end of the High Street - the architectural quality does not fall off.

Caption For Huttoft, The Church C1960

The village lies three miles inland along what passes for a ridge in this flat country between the Wolds and the sand dunes.

Caption For Luton, The Vauxhall Motors Canteen C1950

Part of the main dining room during an average lunch break.

Caption For Sheffield, Endcliffe Woods 1893

This park was laid out for the benefit of working people to give them a break from the dust and grime of industrial Sheffield.

Caption For Exmouth, The Miniature Railway C1960

All of this area of the sea front is now part of the Exmouth Fun Park, a modest theme park for the young and not so young who want a break from the miles of sandy beaches.

Caption For Portland, Prison Entrance 1898

Portland prison was a grim institution during Victoria's reign, with convicts spending long days breaking stone in the nearby quarries with pickaxe and crowbar.

Caption For Waltham St Lawrence, The Church C1955

A majestic yew tree marks the approach to St Lawrence's, which has a west tower of flint and stone blocks topped with early brick. The

Caption For Andover, Town River 1901

Before the Town Bridge was strengthened, heavy carts had to ford the river from either the ramp at the sunlit break beyond the trees or another ramp on the right beside the bridge.

Caption For Stilton, High Street C1955

The hotels and restaurants in the High Street offered a welcome break to travellers, who could also fill up their tanks with petrol from the single petrol pump at the garage.

Caption For Norwich, Cathedral, Nave East 1896

The immensely long nave has shafts and colonettes breaking its length, leading the eye up to the vaults.

Caption For Norwich, Cathedral, Nave East 1896

The immensely long nave has shafts and colonettes breaking its length, leading the eye up to the vaults.