Captions

238 captions found. Showing results 141 to 160.

Caption For Caerphilly, Castle C1955

The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

He remembered: 'When I started Jack Hardy was a tool setter when they bombed X block, blowing the roof off.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Milk Factory 1897

The left-hand bay's top storey has gone and the ground floor windows are mostly blocked, but the building remains in use.

Caption For Twickenham, Barmy Arms 2004

wrote that the proposed scheme was 'a classic example of how not to plan, for with steamroller simplicity planners would have knocked down virtually every house in the area to be replaced by blocks

Caption For Formby, Post Office And Village C1955

The timbered building beyond is a branch of the National Westminster Bank, and the properties beyond that have all been demolished in the interests of building mundane blocks of shops.

Caption For London, St Paul's Cathedral From Fleet Street C1950

The bombed corner on the right is now occupied by an office block, with Waterstone's bookshop on the ground floor.

Caption For Dudley, Castle Street And St Edmund's Church 1968

the then new block of shops included a Fine Fare supermarket, once a prominent chain locally.

Caption For Birmingham, Aston Hall 1896

Begun in 1618 for Sir Thomas Holte, Aston was not completed until 1635.This picture shows the east front; it comprises a main block of seven bays topped by a clock tower and two-stage cupola, and

Caption For Newark, Stodman Street 1906

The butcher's shop is interesting in that it is open on two sides; the butcher either cuts his meat in the street, or he has brought the block out to swill it down.

Caption For Bedford, Embankment Gardens 1929

The hairpin railings were replaced after World War II by concrete block walls, but fortunately lower versions of the railings have recently replaced the ungainly blockwork.

Caption For Quorn, Bulls Head Hotel C1960

This is a mid 18th-century symmetrical brick building of quality, two and a half storeys high and five bays wide.

Caption For Assington, The Church 1907

Since 1907 the porch windows have been blocked.

Caption For Rickinghall, The Church C1965

There is a blocked arch under the window, where a chapel has been demolished.

Caption For Delamere, Fishpool Inn C1960

There was once a healing well somewhere in the forest which, legend has it, was blocked up during an invasion by Vikings.

Caption For Rochdale, The Walk C1910

Walter Vavasour built the block of buildings forming the Walk in the early 1800s, partly on the site of the yard of Eagle Inn.

Caption For Marlborough, The College, The Bradleian Building 1901

This steep-roofed brick building with rather a Gothic flavour, designed by G E Street, replaced a block of fives courts.

Caption For Salisbury, Catherine Street C1950

The Wessex motors garage, whose signs are displayed on the facing wall, has gone, and has been replaced by an office block.

Caption For Nork, The Parade C1955

The Parade is Nork's local shopping centre, a left turn off Fir Tree Road; Eastgate on the left, out of camera shot, has large three-storey blocks of 1930s flats.

Caption For London, The Waterfront By St Paul's 1890

This famous vista, taken from Bankside, shows the glorious dome of St Paul’s rising over the roofs of London.The river is edged not with the anonymous and monumental office blocks we see today but

Caption For Wenvoe, The Castle 1899

With the exception of one of the pavilions (which was to enjoy a second lease of life as a clubhouse for a golf club) and the stable block, the building was demolished c1930.