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This view across the pond towards the rather miserable brick church is standard artist's stuff, but the buildings, including Mill Hill School, some of 1825, Belmont of 1773, by James Paine junior, the

Syston, a Domesday village situated about four miles north of Leicester, was industrialised by an influx of framework knitters in the 19th century, which generated standardised red brick buildings

Much of the church is rendered, with the chancel and east chapel in 15th-century Flemish brick, probably built at the same time as the castle itself.

The red brick rectory dates from about 1810.

Even today it is still possible to see the large sign built into the bricks of the houses that made up this hospital: it reads 'Barrow Hospital supported by voluntary contributions'.

The fabric used in the building is grey vitrified brick in the 76-feet-high north-west tower and the main body of the church, which was consecrated on 14 May 1844, although the aisles and chancel

The traffic islands and the roads were being replaced by a brick surface. It all had to be finished before the Tulip Parade in early May. The shops are still there, but all have changed owners.

Below the heathlands is the absolutely delightful church of St John in the Wilderness, a haven of peace and tranquillity for all who seek a break from the excitements of the bustling resort of Exmouth

Originally these 18th-century red brick cottages were for estate workers. The fifth cottage down from the start of the terrace, No 84, is a chapel, and No 74 is now the village shop.

There are grey and red brick buildings here. The cottages straight ahead were built in the 1860s. On the left is the Crown Inn, where a gruesome event took place in 1944.

Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks produced on the site, the house was the county's first true country house.

'Helen Craig' steamed on until 1959, when she was sold for breaking up. She was given a civic send-off from Preston as she sailed out for the last time.

The photograph shows the rear of the red brick master's house of c1725, which was originally of two stories until a third was added around 1835, backed by a neat garden and tennis courts.

carefully set out within a rectangular moat, and the beauty of the remains, which are in the guardianship of English Heritage, resides not so much in the architecture but in the glowing colour of the brick

They operated four staggered shifts, with half an hour for lunch and tea and two ten-minute tea breaks. Inevitably labour relations all around became strained.

This was a period when thousands of hard-working Liverpudlians took their families on a much-needed break.

The brick façade on the right has also been demolished, and the snack bar is now the Mablethorpe Rock Co.

The Town Clerk, Mr Aitken, had provided swans and waterfowl to stock the lake which had been created, and the Accrington Brick and Tile Company had donated several terra-cotta vases which had been placeed

This froze solid in January, and was soon covered with bricks and old tin cans.

'Chatham' was sold for breaking up in September 1906. 'Roubaix' was sold to the LB&SCR in 1904 and renamed 'Trouville'. She was broken up in 1911.

good roads and order, is admirably managed at both places; but I very much doubt if 'old salts' would recognise the Portsmouth of Charles Dickens and Captain Marryat…in the new, smart, red-bricked

The Village Sweet Shop and Hailey's have gone, and this very pretty building, which hides a 17th-century timber frame behind its brick skin, is now a restaurant, to which has been added a not very beautiful

This amazing independent brick building is staggering by its sheer size, scale and style.

Waterhouse favoured the use of contrasting red brick and terracotta; as well as using it at Hutton Hall, he used it on his other two buildings in Guisborough, the Grammar School and Overbeck, a private