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Caption For Ramsgate, Victoria Parade 1901

Victoria Parade stands on the East Cliff above Marine Road and the broad expanse of Ramsgate Sands.

Caption For The Broads, On Ludham Broad C1945

Most houses alongside the Broads have boathouses rather than garages, and are ideally situated and sought-after as idyllic retreats for authors and writers as well as for local people.

Caption For Leeds, The Parkinson Building C1960

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Caption For Dawlish, The Seafront From The Royal Hotel 1890

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Caption For Truro, Boscawen Street 1923

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Caption For Aberdovey, From The Sands 1901

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

Caption For Ainsdale, Station Road C1965

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

Caption For Reading, St Mary's Butts 1912

Much on the left has now disappeared to make way for the gruesome Broad Street Mall.

Caption For Lyme Regis, Broad Street 1900

Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.

Caption For Marlborough, High Street 1907

The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's.

Caption For Horning, The Village 1902

All this seems miles away from the activities on the Broad, which is just around the corner.

Caption For The Broads, A Greengrocer On The Broads C1945

These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

Caption For Hickling, Broad C1965

A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Caption For Widecombe In The Moor, C1960

Widecombe, probably Dartmoor's most well-known village, stands in the broad valley ('Wide Combe') of the East Webburn river.

Caption For Llanfairfechan, The Sands 1890

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

Caption For Machynlleth, Penrallt Street 1899

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

Caption For Staindrop, Raby Castle C1955

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

Caption For Hathersage, The Village 1902

Charlotte Bronte stayed at the vicarage of the hillside town on Hathersage in 1845; the rector Henry Nussey proposed to her but she declined him.

Caption For Woburn, High Street 1952

The three-storied and broad-fronted architecture in this section of the village indicates a predominance of wealth and large families among the original owners, following the rebuilding after the fire

Caption For Broad Hinton, The White Horse C1955

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.