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Caption For Wem, High Street C1965

There was a terrible fire in Wem in 1677, so most of the buildings in the town date from the 1700s or afterwards.

Caption For Wimborne, The Grammar School C1955

The Victorians built the mock-Tudor school building in 1849-51 to replace an 18th-century schoolroom.

Caption For Birkenhead, Hamilton Square 1967

The ornate building with the crowning clock tower is Birkenhead Town Hall, designed by C O Ellison & Son of Liverpool.

Caption For Market Deeping, High Street C1955

Market Deeping has been fortunate in that it has kept most of its attractive stone buildings, and this street is still much the same today.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, The Butter Market C1965

The Suffolk Hotel (right) has closed; the façade has been retained, and the building has been converted into two shops.

Caption For Wellingborough, Market Street C1955

This view looks south along Market Street past the Midland Road junction towards Sheep Street.

Caption For London, Royal Alhambra Palace C1890

This Moorish building opened in Leicester Square in 1854 as the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art.

Caption For Bath, Cheap Street From Orange Grove 1895

Back into town, this view from Orange Grove looks along past Brydon's Municipal Buildings of 1893, 'rendered necessary by the large increase of public business since the erection of the central building the

Caption For Ashwell, High Street 1951

Here we see some of the other superb buildings dating from the 15th and 17th centuries which escaped three fires in 1632, 1795 and 1850.

Caption For High Wycombe, The New Town Hall 1906

Still alone and flanked by old trees from the carriage drive to Wycombe Abbey, the Town Hall is two years old in this view, a fine building in Queen Anne style.

Caption For Grantham, High Street 1904

Sad to say, this is an archive view, for since 1904 all the dignified Georgian and early Victorian buildings on the right have been replaced as far as the middle distance building with a corniced parapet

Caption For Eastleigh, The Town Hall C1960

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.

Caption For Eastleigh, The Town Hall C1960

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.The building looks just the same now as it did in about 1960; nowadays, part of it is a dance and

Caption For Norwich, Strangers' Hall 1919

Now a museum and well preserved, this ancient building was a 15th-century merchant's house, and was also owned in its history by two Norwich mayors.

Caption For Sheffield, Barker's Pool And Town Hall C1955

The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes

Caption For Sheffield, The Moor C1960

The heart of the city changed almost continuously throughout the 20th century as new public buildings, office buildings and department stores were constructed and road building and widening schemes

Caption For Chandler's Ford, Bournemouth Road C1960

Here we are looking at shops on the side opposite the Parade.

Caption For Grantham, Angel And Royal Hotel 1904

The Angel's sash windows replace the original windows, although the medieval stone hood moulds survive, as do the buttresses.

Caption For Burnley, Workhouse Infirmary 1906

The architect of this building was William Waddington who designed quite a number of distinguished local buildings. This

Caption For Port Sunlight, The Post Office C1960

The post office is the black and white half-timbered building on the left.