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Sited away from the city centre in the last remaining enclave of 18th-century and earlier buildings, the Cathedral with its fine broach spire of 1862 would hardly wring an awed gasp from even the most

Formerly a dirty, rutted lane, this was changed into a shopping centre from 1872 with the demolition of the Hick Lane cottages.

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

Built on the site of a failed attempt to erect a structure to rival the Eiffel Tower, this building, apart from its twin pepper-pot towers, cannot be said to be a thing of great beauty.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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