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Although it looks as if this village had a grocer's shop, if residents wanted the big town experience it was necessary to travel a few miles.

Children enjoyed catching them until a big one appeared!

This view looks east to the side of the west wing, which is big enough to be a house in its own right.

It was a big undertaking to flatten such a pile, but work began on 3 January 1975.

Every day the pilot boats thread a winding path between the yachts, leading in huge vessels that seem impossibly big for such a relatively narrow waterway.

Much of All Saints' Church was destroyed in a big fire in the town in 1675, though the medieval tower survives.

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

David Morgan, an engineer at Harris's for over thirty years, used to be a delivery boy, and remembers polishing the big brass window sill every Saturday morning for 10s a week.

It received a market charter from Charles II, and at its centre is a big triangular Market Place.

The school was designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield in 1883; it contained the Headmaster's residence, boarding accommodation and classrooms, including the 'Big School', later the library, on the ground floor

On the far bank a salmon ladder can just be seen; these were built into many of the big weirs to give migrating salmon a better chance of reaching the spawning grounds upstream.

the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock tower is known as Big

So successful was the boating lake, which opened in 1924, that six years later it was doubled in size by an extension south of the big bridge.

Although it styles itself Great Yarmouth to distinguish it from that small Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight, its usual associations are less with greatness than with bigness, boisterousness, and a joviality

A big sea is running into the famous cove, as if to emphasise the rugged grandeur of the west coast of the Lizard.

When a big spring tide met the river's flow, the aegre, a wave similar to the Severn Bore, was seen at its best here.

Eric Parker described this pub as an old posting inn with the remains of what was once a spacious parlour, solid with oak beams big enough for a belfry, warmed by a broad open fireplace

The salt mines underground are enormous, so large that miles and miles of road systems, big enough for double-decker buses, have been formed to travel around on; in fact there are 22 million cubic metres

The town centre design was quite visionary, and attracted several of the big retailers.

This splendid church was conceived by Sir Edmund Beckett, who as well as being a barrister and amateur architect designed the clock mechanism of Big Ben.