Search Results

Don Lovelock remembers going in to buy loose biscuits weighed out from the tin and the assistant breaking a piece off to make it up to a pound.

The retention of the trees softening their setting is to be welcomed - but for how long, when in most parts of London insurance companies break out in a cold sweat at the very sight of a suburban tree.

If greater prosperity meant that more people could take a week's break, there were still many more who were left behind.

From further west this view gives a good idea of the Georgian and later brick frontages added to the mainly 17th century timber-framed cottages lining the High Street and giving the town its distinctive

Dating from about 1912 and now the NatWest Bank, it is in Queen Anne style using grey brick with fiery red brick dressings, deep modillioned eaves and large pedimented dormers.

St Mary's was built between 1877 and 1878 by John Cundall in brick with a prominent steeple. The interior is brick-lined. The tower was a mere 75 feet high and has been cemented over.

still is, the main east/west route through the town, passing St Wilfrid's Church and Victoria Park with distant views of the South Downs; it encouraged en route travellers to stop and have a break

In 1960, at nearby Stoney Hill, bricks were still being made by hand. Four brick makers were moulding and firing about 3,200 bricks per day.

We are looking northwards towards the Square (centre), with 18th-century brick and tile houses on both sides of Wimborne Street.

The Baptist Tabernacle and the Gas Board showrooms are to the right, whilst on the left stands the red brick Riflemans Hotel, which dates from 1888.

The bold square brick tower was built onto a 13th-century base c1656 after an earlier tower had collapsed.

In its place stands a row of brick terraced cottages. In the distance, the thatched building with the brick chimney forms part of the original village school and the School House.

Charcoal-making was a forest industry until the 1960s, and was carried out on sites within the forest.There were two brick works in the village.A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan

The Gothic west front with a Decorated-style window and the gable tower were added in 1891 in white brick, almost masking the earlier red-brick 'preaching-box' behind.

A water mill has stood here since Norman times, but this red brick corn mill dates from the early 1800s.

The inquiry into the disaster led to three disagreeing reports in 1937 on the causes of the disaster and the owner William Bonsall was convicted on eight counts of breaking mining safety laws, yet he was

We are looking eastwards from the blocked mouth of the River Char, which ends its journey to the sea by having to break through a ridge of shingle (right).

Romantically named for the sea breaking across its rocks, Dancing Ledge is a mile south of Langton Matravers village.

This had been the Norfolk Coffee House; it was rebuilt in white brick in 1838.

Up to the 1970s, the Royal Oak public house offered a welcome break to travellers before they moved on to London or Thrapston.

After the war there were no more production workers' lunch breaks or children's parties here, as output became everything.

These red brick terraces were built to house the employees of hosiery and shoe manufacturers at the turn of the century.

Looking west along the High Street, we see buildings which are characteristic of North Norfolk: flints set in mortar, with brick facings.

This park was laid out for the benefit of working people to give them a break from the dust and grime of industrial Sheffield.