Search Results

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

The main street of Alllington village (bottom left) leads into this panorama of Bridport town, looking south-east from Allington Hill, with the outer parish's St Swithun's Church being the prominent building

Although pig iron was being produced in the area in the late 18th century, it was the setting up of the Tredegar Iron Works in 1800 that gave the town prosperity, growth and its name.

Many visitors made the town their home, and the population increased markedly as Exmouth entered the 20th century.

The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.

It is remarkable that the Town Hall still almost totally blocks the town's High Street. It was built in 1652.

Now Southampton's Archaeological Museum, this used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and powder stored here.

At the top of Wells Road, as the town turns to moor land, lies this delightful area, ideal for a little perambulation.

Little has changed today, and the gardens still impart an air of tranquility for the residents of the town.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

The town had been keen to keep out of the National Park when it was created in 1954 as it perceived that this may restrict such development, whereas places like Lynton, Lynmouth and Porlock saw the

The River Stort, with the Town Park along its banks, has become a beautiful and popular venue for the people of Harlow, Old and New.

The Market Square is still the commercial centre of the town. There are several banks, and the market is held here on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Although quite narrow and winding, this is the main street of the town, stretching for nearly a mile, and running parallel with the River Deben.

The New Town was to be beautiful, and to work well, with wide tree-lined roads densely planted with trees and shrubs.

In the heart of the town the church and the grand Market Hall are the key buildings.

Buildings from the last two hundred years adjoin each other in a rather odd and uneasy way in Leicestershire's second town.

Here we see pretty brick and stone cottages of the 18th century and earlier, which went to make up the Ashby referred to by Camden as 'villa amoenissima'; they pre-date the dramatic launch of the town as

With an old castle, and the River Exe running through the town, it presents plenty of opportunities for recreation.

Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury.

This lovely old building, the town museum and waxworks when this photograph was taken, adorns Brading High Street. Note the early appearance of double yellow lines prohibiting car parking.

The vessel moored to buoys against the far bank is probably unloading grain into a Town Mills silo. This view across the river separates Rochester Cathedral and the castle.

The college admitted both boarders and town boys, and somewhat uniquely for the period, regarded them all with equal status.

This picture fits the description of Rochdale that appears in the 1906 Baedecker guide: 'a town of over 90,000 inhab., situated on the Roche, and is one of the chief seats of the flannel and woollen industry