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Caption For Great Chart, The Village 1908

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Caption For Rye, West Street 1888

Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting

Caption For Chertsey, The Pond 1908

This idyllic view shows a once-familiar sight, horses having well-earned break from pulling their carts.

Caption For Blackdown Camp, Garrison And Institute 1906

Here we see the brick-built army buildings of this military settlement in Surrey's army quarter on the high heathlands of the north west of the county.

Caption For Crosby, The Windmill C1960

Great Crosby Mill, Liverpool is a tall brick tower mill with a domed cap.

Caption For Wickhambreaux, The Post Office 1903

of the Little Stour, whose waters flow peacefully under the bridge on the left, the small general stores and post office on the right served this little hidden village with its 18th- and 19th-century brick

Caption For Fakenham, Norwich Street C1955

None of its brick buildings is outstanding yet the total effect is one of pleasing harmony.

Caption For Stoke Poges, Church Cottage 1929

The creeper has now gone, exposing the Tudor brick of the Hastings Chapel on the left.

Caption For Peterborough, The Town Bridge C1950

We can also see the railway bridge carrying the main line to London King's Cross, which links up with the Nene Valley route, and the Fletton brick sidings.

Caption For Loughborough, High Street C1955

A few earlier buildings survive on the left-hand side of the photograph, but the right is dominated by uninspired, even dreary, red-brick Edwardian buildings.

Caption For Sidmouth, Fore Street 1904

The red sandstone cliffs of East Devon break into the green and pastoral valley of the River Sid; Sidmouth lines the slopes of the gap.

Caption For Hemingford Abbots, Abbot's Church 1898

The chancel was rebuilt in c1800 in yellow brick.

Caption For Norwich, Old Cow Tower And The River Wensum 1891

The tower was rebuilt in flint faced with brick in about 1390, at the time when the city took it over from the Cathedral Priory.

Caption For Northchapel, Village 1902

When the roads became negotiable, a brick-built toll house was constructed here.

Caption For Horsey, The Windmill C1955

Here we see a typical Broadland brick tower drainage mill.

Caption For Great Saling, St James' Church 1903

The Hall is a 17th-century extravaganza in blue and red brick, with curvilinear gables.

Caption For Shoeburyness, Ness Road C1955

In the foreground stands the arch of the Conservative Club, with the solid brick-built Cambridge Hotel next door.The honey-pot style telegraph poles carry lines to the surrounding buildings.

Caption For Plaxtol, Rectory 1901

The old rectory, of warm red brick, with its tall chimneys and light-gathering broad bay windows has creeper running rampant all over it.

Caption For Godalming, High Street 1903

The building, in brick and stone, dates from the late 17th century.

Caption For Gorleston, Old Dutch Pier 1952

In the centre of the photograph we can see the 64ft, red brick lighthouse on the Brush Wharf, built at a cost of £400.