Caption For Banstead, High Street C1955
The parade of
shops on the left are
currently occupied by
Thomas Cook, Abbey,
a hairstylist and a
photographic shop,
whilst Boots is in the
adjacent block.
Caption For Blackpool, From The South Jetty 1890
Also in this block was Holden's dining rooms, Wolstenholmes (photographer to the Lord Mayor of London), Horace Fowler, who sold only non-alcoholic beer and soft drinks, and a place where you could hire
Caption For Great Haywood, The Canal C1955
Looking along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the T-junction with the Trent & Mersey, an
attractive bridge carries the latter's towpath across the former on a slender brick arch with
Caption For Dublin, Grafton Street 1897
Today it is pedestrianised, but a century ago it was full of horse-drawn vehicles, clattering less noisily than usual over its pine block roadway, laid to deaden the noise of traffic.
Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1911
The turreted and lead domed building of 1903, now Dorothy Perkins, survives, but the left hand one was replaced by a nine-storey monster office block, Berkshire House, and others were swept away in the
Caption For Linton, Old Cottages C1955
The clay, dug out close by, and generally leaving a pond in its wake, will be mixed with straw and then either moulded into blocks or poured straight into shuttering to make the walls.
Caption For Pevensey, The Village C1965
Many buildings have been replaced by 1960s and 1970s three-storey blocks
of flats, and in the middle distance is St Wilfrid's Church, a 1968 building that adds little to Pevensey Bay's character.