Search Results

The Royal Oak (centre right) now houses Tillions. The glass shades on the Bradford Boot and Shoe Exchange (left) carry interesting advertisements: men's nailed boots cost from 3s 11d.

The Royal Oak (centre right) now houses Tillions. The glass shades on the Bradford Boot and Shoe Exchange (left) carry interesting advertisements: men's nailed boots cost from 3s 11d.

For many years it occupied various premises in the Close, including Kings House, before moving from the damp, riverside site in 1847, apparently to escape a cholera epidemic.

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built a number of cottages for estate staff.

A dye house and two corn mills were there by the mid 17th century. The mill was once owned by Malmesbury Abbey before the Dissolution.

photographer is looking north past the covered wagon with its load of barrels and sacks towards the pedimented gable of the 1868 Wesleyan church on the right; the police station and court house

In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn.The Brown Cow public house is on the right.The village is 400ft above sea level.

The charming central Green is overlooked by houses and shops, most of which were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries when local merchants invested wealth made in the maritime

On the left corner is John's Cottage, a late 16th-century stone house with a surviving moulded timber mullioned window facing the photographer.

On the left, beyond the Methodist Church, is a house of 1900 with very early and rare concrete interlocking roof tiles set in a diagonal pattern.

This view in the Market Square gives a good idea of the town's high-quality Georgian and early 19th-century stone houses.

The Five Bells public house is on the corner of Bells Lane, on the left, and further along, the building with the balcony is the former Victory Inn.

Modernised in the 1950s with a new wing added, it provides a very homely house. Some of the additions can be seen to the rear.

Only the distant building with roof dormers, the Citadel, the house and the Lamb Inn on the right now remain.

In 1845 Goddard gave his fine Georgian house to the Church as a vicarage. Today it is occupied by a firm of solicitors.

Besides the botanical collections there are a number of superb buildings, including Sir William Chambers' Chinese Pagoda of 1761 and Decimus Burton's stupendous Palm House of the 1840s, which is 360 feet

A variety of houses and bungalows - some with verandas and balconies - are serviced by a rough shingle track. A gentleman is sheltering from the wind on the shingle bank.

Today, once away from these few houses, you cannot avoid the dominating presence of the Isle of Grain power station chimney.

Handcross Park house is now a school. The buildings in the photograph are little changed today. The village was by-passed in 1959.

The Court House overlooks a square which was once alive with traffic. As well as the Mail Coach, there were several private coach companies running between Dublin and Belfast.

Of the 11 locks on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, this is something of a halfway house. It stands just upstream of the road to Hatfield Peverel, in an area sometimes known as World's End.

The building on the left is now a bank, while a few doors down was the old lodging house for down-and-outs. Finally, on the left is the old Post Office.

The Customs House was handed over to Sea Cadets in 1942. There is a plethora of pleasure craft in view.

These early 1950s houses are still pairs of semis with a mix of hipped and gabled roofs, the latter with rendered upper floors; they also have the metal-framed 'Crittal' windows which only went out of