Search Results

The textile mills, forges and foundries, and the vast array of factories of all kinds that sprang up in the 1830s, attracted many people from the surrounding countryside, who exchanged the traditional

This photograph shows some of the numerous monuments housed within the Lumley Chapel that once formed part of old Cheam Church.

The church boasts some of the most grotesque gargoyles in the Cotswolds.

St Peter's Church, Nevendon is an ancient church built in the 13th century by a member of the Fitz-Lewis family.

Here we get a splendid view of the frontage of the 1926 Fox Inn building, largely unchanged today.

Opened in 1984, the new Lanes keeps frontages on English Street and Lowther Street and manages to retain something of the character of the old properties.

The Spinney, as the manor house of the parish of Sully, was sold at auction in 1938 as part of 164 acres of land that included Sully Island.

The distinctive tower of the parish church dominates this view, which gives an excellent overall prospect of the Victorian 'new' town of Saltburn, with its symmetrical grid work of streets.

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort

The central position of its parish church and the rectilinear layout of the town, which can still be traced today, are remnants of medieval planning.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

The cluster of half-timbered houses dated from the late 15th century. Known as The Friars, they marked the position of the Dominican priory's gatehouse.

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

At the beginning of the 19th century Brading's curate was Legh Richmond, whose moral tale 'The Annals of the Poor' and other rural stories enjoyed a large readership.

Winchcombe's long central street becomes in turn Hailes Street, High Street, Abbey Terrace, Gloucester Street and Cheltenham Road, showing off a great variety of magnificent architecture along the way.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

It was one of the first colleges to be built in red brick at the time when the rather expensive fashion of imported stone began to decline.

Brixham has known sadness and tragedy as well as the tough but idyllic life of the fishing heyday. Two hundred Brixham men died during the First World War, many of them fishermen.

A charming view of Saltburn sands showing Saltburn in its heyday as a seaside resort, just before the outbreak of the First World War.

The name of the village means 'castle' or 'entrenchment'. This quaint public house was probably built on the site of a coaching inn.

This building seems to have been preserved, but in fact, what exists today is a ­replica of the façade. Though altered over the years, parts of this old house dated from the 1400s.

Named after the Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's uncle, this most distinguished of buildings opened as a military hospital in 1879 and remained in use for 117 years.

The name of the town was first recorded in AD 955 as Andeferas. Andover was a municipal borough as long ago as the reign of King John, and later became an established centre for the wool trade.

Although damaged by the less than caring attentions of human hands in past centuries, it remains one of the finest examples of its type in the country.