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Caption For Aylesbury, County Asylum, Stone 1897

This view looks towards the main entrance ranges, which were altered and added to by Brandon in the 1860s and 1870s.

Caption For Chesham, Blucher Street C1950

Brandon's on the right is now Brandon House, and Broadway Court beyond lost its shopfronts in the 1980s.

Caption For Brandon, The Flint Knappers, Market Hill Corner C1955

Brandon was famous for its flint knapping industry, which supplied gunflints throughout the world.

Caption For Little Dalby, The Church C1955

This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.

Caption For Little Dalby, The Church C1955

This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.

Caption For Brandon, River Ouse 1925

Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.

Caption For Chesham, Christchurch 1903

Taken from the footbridge over the river, the towerless Christchurch was designed by Raphael Brandon and dates from the 1860s.

Caption For Chesham, The Broadway And The War Memorial C1955

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

Caption For Benenden, Church 1901

Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.

Caption For Bristol, From Brandon Hill 1896

As Bristolians had enjoyed free access rights to Brandon Hill since the 16th century, the Radicals simply held their meetings there, attracting large crowds; they were almost impossible to police.

Caption For Sompting, West Street C1955

The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On

Caption For Benenden, Church 1901

Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square 1921

To the left of the Clocktower and the County Hall is the Jacobean-style Town Hall and Corn Exchange building by Brandon, dated 1865.

Caption For Aylesbury, County Asylum, Stone 1897

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

Caption For Aylesbury, Walton Street 1901

The church is Holy Trinity by David Brandon, built in the 1840s in flint pebbles and stone, with further Victorian additions in brick and stone.

Caption For Taverham, The Hall C1960

This attractive three-storey building is in the Jacobean and Tudor style much favoured by its builder, David Brandon.

Caption For Whiteparish, The Church C1955

The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.

Caption For Aylesbury, Bucks County Infirmary 1897

David Brandon rebuilt the hospital in 1859 to 1862 in a similar style to the earlier one; it had been a Georgian country house, with wings added in 1832.

Caption For Sompting, West Street C1955

The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand. On

Caption For Chesham, Town Square C1965

Brandon's department store with its classical pilasters concealing its steel frame is now shops and offices.