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Caption For Fairford, The Square C1945

Fairford is situated on the River Coln a few miles from the Thames in Gloucestershire.

Caption For Manchester, Owen's College C1876

At first the college was on Quay Street, in central Manchester, but it soon outgrew the building.

Caption For Liverpool, Custom House 1887

Built in the late 1820s, the building we see here was Liverpool's fifth Customs & Excise collection building.

Caption For St Ives, Bridge Street 1914

The building with the jettied gables to the left dates back to the 17th century, on the face of it one of the oldest buildings in St Ives, although earlier buildings survive behind more modern facades.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

Such was the scale of operations at Vauxhall Motors that the maintenance and building contractors had their own site (foreground) complete with semi-permanent buildings, security and a fully operational

Caption For Sandbach, Old Houses C1955

The brick building on the right has gone, and the timber building beside it has been extended.

Caption For Market Drayton, Shropshire Street C1960

This is a view of the building in M32008 taken from the other direction.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1950

The maintenance and building contractors had their own site operations facility, complete with semi-permanent buildings, security and a full communications system.

Caption For Kettering, Grammar School And High School 1922

This palatial neo-Georgian building was opened in 1913 as the boys' Grammar School, in the right part of the building, and the girls' High School on the left.

Caption For Manchester, Owen's College C1876

The college was founded in 1845 by John Owen, who left £100,000 for the purpose.

Caption For Nottingham, The Post Office 1902

Two grim buildings from the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1900

The classical-style building on the left is the Midland Bank, claimed by many to be one of the town’s finest build- ings.

Caption For Nottingham, Victoria Street 1890

Beyond the last building in Poultry, with its colonnade over the pavement, is Victoria Street, with its grand Victorian palazzos of commerce.

Caption For Greatham, High Street C1955

The Smiths Arms on the right is an attractive listed building. The

Caption For Sherborne, Abbey 1924

Sherborne Abbey is the burial place of two Saxon kings, Ethelbald and Ethelbert, the two elder brothers of Alfred the Great.

Caption For Manchester, The Assize Court 1886

The Strangeway Estate had been bought around 1859 for the purpose of building a gaol and these courts.

Caption For Little Milton, The Post Office C1955

Older buildings in the High Street date from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

Caption For Kettering, Library And Sheep Street C1965

A public library had been opened in 1896 in the Corn Exchange in the Market Place.

Caption For Liverpool, The Royal Liver Building C1955

The second of the Pier Head buildings was the Royal Liver Building.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1965

The building has a great number of vertical beams not much more than a hand's span apart.