Captions

82 captions found. Showing results 41 to 60.

Caption For Leyburn, High Street C1955

Note the barber's striped pole outside his premises on the right.

Caption For Coventry, Trinity Church 1892

Over on the left we appear to have an umbrella maker and a barber.

Caption For Spilsby, The Terrace C1955

The barber's pole (centre right) has also gone.

Caption For Warrington, The Barley Mow Inn C1950

Built in 1561 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the half-timbered Barley Mow Inn is the one constant factor in Warrington's old Market Place.

Caption For Aberaeron, Main Street C1955

Two people have time to chat, and perhaps the barber's shop on the left has some customers to attend to.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, From Bridge 1890

The village church is seen here from the Gothic, six-arched river bridge of 1864, which links Clifton Hampden with the Barley Mow inn.

Caption For Uckfield, Church Street 1902

The barber's shop on the right is still a hairdressers.

Caption For Goudhurst, Hope Mill 1901

Fishing has been popular on the Teise since Victorian times, with grayling and barbel sought from Finchlock's Bridge along to Hope Mill.

Caption For Wellington, The Green C1965

The white building in the centre is the office of Barber & Son, a local estate agents founded in 1848.

Caption For Barley, Pendle Inn C1960

Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.

Caption For Studley, The Barley Mow C1960

Samuel Lewis, compiling A Topographical Dictionary of England in 1831, described the Barley Mow as 400 years old even then.

Caption For Swaffham Bulbeck, The Maltings C1955

The maltings were part of the development that followed; the surviving kiln of the maltings would originally have included the malting floors, where the barley was allowed to germinate before being heated

Caption For Ramsgate, Ellington Park Fountain 1907

It opened on 7 September 1893 as Ellington Park, and this beautiful ornamental fountain was installed in 1895 as a gift from a former Burgess of Ramsgate, Mrs Barber, in memory of her son.

Caption For Ipswich, Westgate Street 1893

On the corner was the Provincial Co-operative Drug Co (centre), and next was the Barley Mow tavern run by William Ellis.

Caption For Clynnog, General View C1955

It was said that two pilgrimages to Bardey were the equivalent of going to Rome.

Caption For Hurst Green, The Bayley Arms And The Village C1955

The Barley Arms (right) is an 18th-century inn with stone quoins and stone window surrounds.

Caption For Odiham, High Street, Lower End C1950

Mr Chapple opened his garage further down the street in 1914 – note the petrol pumps on the pavement – and on either side are a barber's shop and a café advertising teas.

Caption For Ipswich, Westgate Street 1893

On the corner was the Provincial Co-operative Drug Co (centre), and next was the Barley Mow tavern run by William Ellis.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1965

Pettit's Stores on the right is now the Grapes and a barber's shop.

Caption For Leeds, Boar Lane C1965

Under the Griffin Hotel signboard, and in the midst of the dominating chain stores and offices, Jackson's barber's shop still shows a traditional striped pole.