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Caption For Southwold, From Lighthouse 1893

Edmund survived because the churchyard served as a fire break.

Caption For Desborough, King Street C1955

The brick-built Congregational church on the corner of Union Street and King Street was opened in 1912 and still flourishes, now as the United Reformed Church.

Caption For Frimley Green, Old Windmill 1906

This red brick tower mill was built in 1784 and was disused by 1870.

Caption For Bracknell, High Street 1901

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

Caption For Ferring, Greystoke Manor Hotel C1960

This hotel near the sea front has brick walls with flint gables and garden walling.

Caption For Waltham Cross, Post Office And High Street C1950

This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring

Caption For Maidstone, Museum 1898

This splendid red-brick Tudor house was once Chillington Manor, home of the Wyatts; one of the family, Sir Thomas the younger, led the rebellion against Queen Mary's marriage to Philip of

Caption For Long Melford, Kentwell Hall 1895

The red-brick Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall stands at the northern end of Long Melford.

Caption For Thorpe St Andrew, Village And River Yare 1922

The Rush Cutters has a late 16th-century core, evident in the octagonal brick chimneys on the right and the massive stack behind the left hip.

Caption For Chesterfield, Market Place 1902

The Italianate, red brick Market Hall with its imposing clock tower was built in 1857, and still forms the centrepiece of the town's lively regular outdoor market.

Caption For Ewhurst, The Mill 1925

Hurt Wood Mill is a small brick tower mill with four patent sails and a fantail.

Caption For Biddenden, The Windmill C1920

This is a Kentish white weatherboarded smock mill with a two-storey octagonal brick base, powered by four eliptic spring sails and winded by a fantail.

Caption For High Wycombe, The Rupert Gates On Marlow Hill 1906

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

Caption For Colchester, The Residence Of Jane And Ann Taylor C1960

These Georgian brick-fronted houses were lived in by Jane and Ann Taylor from 1796 to 1811.

Caption For Bisham, The Abbey 1893

The rambling Tudor brick house stands on the site of an Augustinian monastery, and fragments of the original abbey were used in its construction.

Caption For Fleetwood, The King Orry Leaving For The I.O.M C1955

She had been sold for breaking-up to R Taylor of Bury.

Caption For Leigh On Sea, 1891

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

Caption For Ipswich, Tavern Street 1896

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

Caption For Epsom, Race Day C1955

Pinza was ridden by Gordon Richards, who had just been awarded a knighthood in the coronation honours, and whose long, record-breaking career only lacked a victory in the Derby.

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Caption For Newlyn, 1903

Note the tall leaning brick chimneys behind.