Search Results

The three-arched, balustraded bridge at Shillingford dates back to 1827 and carries the Wallingford to Thame road over the river. The road was turnpiked in 1764.

On the Cherwell 1912 Adjoining the Cherwell is the great green expanse of Christ Church Meadow, which is held in trust by Christ Church and was originally given by Lady Montacute to maintain

With a 19th-century creeper-covered cottage providing residential quarters for the teacher, a schoolroom has been added to one side of the building to offer educational facilities to the young children

Built in 1898 at a cost of £20,000, the Beacon Hotel boasted its own stables and livery school, and was an extremely popular establishment during the first three decades of the 20th century.

This village lies just to the north of Market Weighton. Up the bank on the right is the parish church, and the road also leads to the Old Hall.

Here we see a large caravan park, very popular at this time.

Shoebury, a garrison town to the east of Southend-on-Sea, attracted many holidaymakers who enjoyed camping.

Specimens of 'Little Trees', a species of deep water coral so named because of its shape, are sometimes washed up on the beach at Crackington.

Frith's photographer was looking from the front of the Waterfront Inn towards the Trent lock, with the old lock keeper's cottage to its left and the warehouse to its right.

Standing on a Christian site with a thousand-year history, this is the third church to stand in the village.

As well as the ever- popular ball games, picnics and simply watching the boats go by, the Strand at Gillingham also offered a paddling pool, a boating pool, a children's playground, miniature

This view is taken from the Elizabeth Street end of the park, and looks north towards the Everard Arms (facing the pathway) and Forest Gate Road.

There is not much traffic in Victoria Street at this time.

Laid down at Sheerness in 1895, engined by Clydebank, and completed in 1897, 'Pelorus' was the lead ship for a class on the Cape Station before transferring to the East Indies.

In 1937 this halt was built at the holiday camp to allow the holiday camp expresses which ran from London to Yarmouth to drop off passengers.

Church House was built in the High Street next to the minster in 1906 at a cost of £2,870 14s 11d. It replaced Sansom's ironmonger's shop, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury.

We are standing almost at the corner of the High Street, with the old rectory (home of the famous authoress Dorothy Sayers) hidden behind the wall on the right.

While a group of children on the beach greet the photographer, others visit the sweet shop (left), whilst a group wait with suitcases to be collected at the end of their holiday (centre).

Everything that wasn't sold at the Smith and Warren stores was probably sold by Michael Griffith instead.

Perhaps Richmond's most handsome and unchanged cobbled street, Newbiggin means 'new settlement'; its level width suggests that it was planned as the town's original market place.

Kent's central lending library is at Springfields. This is one of modern Maidstone's many tower blocks.

Parked cars fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

Unless it was a local custom to stand in the middle of the road, we have no idea what is attracting the attention of the men in the foreground of this picture; surely it is not the horse-drawn tram travelling

The house was built in 1751 by Samuel Greathead on the site of an Elizabethan mansion. In the 1920s domestic staff at Guy's Cliffe worked a six-and-a-half-day week.