Captions

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Caption For London, Hyde Park Corner, The Screen 1900

Decimus Burton’s impressive arch is topped by a decorative frieze depicting horsemen, the design imitated from the Elgin Marbles which were on display in the British Museum.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, Abbots Bridge C1955

The arches once had portcullises into the water, and there is a walkway on the inside of the wall.

Caption For Brighton, The Beach 1902

From Palace Pier looking east, beyond the terminus of Magnus Volks' 1883 Electric Railway, we can see the late 1890s arches of Madeira Terrace, halfway up the sea wall in front of Marine Parade, with Kemp

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Great Haywood, Essex Bridge C1955

The original bridge consisted of 42 arches and stretched some way back from the river in order to clear wet ground.

Caption For Alton, The Round House C1955

Even before the Great War, business had been transferred to a 'much more commodious police station'.

Caption For Fareham, Union Street 2005

The bricks that were used to build many of the houses in the High Street were the same kind, the magnificent Fareham Reds, that built the spectacular railway viaduct, whose seventeen arches loom

Caption For Walberswick, Bridge 1919

Horsedrawn carriages and motorised vehicles had to take a much longer route, about nine miles, via Blythburgh.

Caption For Hadleigh, Toppesfield Bridge 1922

This is the three-arched red brick medieval bridge over the River Brett at Hadleigh.

Caption For Eastbourne, Belle Vue Hotel C1965

All the buildings in this view survive, including the smaller houses in Elms Avenue and the rather good 1850s stucco of the Belle Vue Hotel, with its arched ground floor windows and heavy moulded cornice

Caption For Huntingdon, The Old Bridge 1898

The medieval bridge over the River Ouse was started in 1332 to connect Huntingdon with Godmanchester, and the respective authorities paid for three arches - note the different styles - with the builders

Caption For Warminster, Market Place C1965

On the right is a heavily-rusticated arch leading through to the rear of the hotel, a reminder of the town's coaching days.

Caption For Northwich, Anderton Boat Lift C1960

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

Caption For Lee, Old Maid's Cottage C1950

This was built as a much smaller cottage in 1653, and rebuilt in the 1870s by Robert Wilson.

Caption For Chelwood Gate, The Village C1930

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

Caption For London, The County Hall C1955

Though it sits heavily on the Embankment, its broad facades and massed arches in the Piranesi style bring it a monumental dignity.'

Caption For Witchampton, Mill 1904

The mill at Witchampton stands on the site of a much older mill building.

Caption For Brompton, The Gordon Memorial And R E Institute 1894

The General died in 1885 and this statue, erected in 1890, faces the memorial arch.

Caption For Uppingham, School Quadrangle 1927

The air of a monastic undercroft, with its heavy circular columns and chamfered pointed arches, pervades the photograph.

Caption For Staines, Boating 1907

Guiding a punt - and its 'fair inhabitants' - towards the graceful arches of Staines Bridge.