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Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962.

Caption For Grantchester, The Rose And Crown C1965

The Rose and Crown, now the Rupert Brooke, has been extended at the front, losing the outside seating area.

Caption For Blakeney, High Street C1950

Blakeney stands at the edge of the Forest of Dean at the point where Blackpool Brook and Soudley Brook meet.

Caption For Batheaston, Main Road And River C1965

The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.

Caption For Grantchester, The Church Of St Andrew And St Mary 1929

The last two lines of Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' have immortalised the church: 'Stands the church clock at ten to three/And is there honey still for tea?'

Caption For Sheffield, Wire Mill Dam C1955

Porter Brook meanders its way from Forge Dam and skirts one edge of Whiteley Woods and Bingham Park before descending over the weirs into Endcliffe Wood.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962.

Caption For Blaenavon, Broad Street C1955

This street was once called Heol-y-Nant (Brook Street) from the brook which ran through Blaenavon.

Caption For Grantchester, High Street C1946

A thatcher is at work repairing the thatch around a deep-cut dormer window.

Caption For Lichfield, The Cathedral, The West Front 1887

During the Civil War the cathedral and its surrounding Close were fortified and held for the King; the rest of the city declared for Parliament.

Caption For St Neots, River Terrace C1955

During the floods of 1947, the River Ouse rose over the gardens of the twelve houses in River Terrace and drenched the ground floors.

Caption For Blaenavon, Broad Street C1955

This street was once called Heol-y-Nant (Brook Street) from the brook which ran through Blaenavon.

Caption For Slaidburn, Town End C1955

As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Caption For Manchester, Market Street 1889

We are looking from the Cross Street / Corporation Street corner.

Caption For Slaidburn, Town End C1955

Slaidburn nestles in a hollow with higher ground around it.As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Caption For Slaidburn, Church Street 1921

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

Caption For Daventry, Sheaf Street C1950

We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street.

Caption For Cosby, Croft Road From The Nook C1965

Cosby presents a most unusual configuration for a Leicestershire village, which with care and attention over the years could have been described as picturesque.

Caption For Stanwell, The Rising Sun C1965

Children bathe in a brook on a hot day in Stanwell.

Caption For Slaidburn, Church Street 1921

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.