Search Results

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

Small inshore fishing boats are drawn up at the back of the harbour, where two jetties were built in the 1890s to provide shelter and encourage this local industry.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs. Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

As the town's popularity as a holiday resort grew, Victorian streets and shops spread back from the sea. Here were grocers, outfitters, tobacconists and souvenir and fancy goods shops.

Lytham's premier hotel has a history dating back over 300 years.

In those days this was frontier country, for though William the Conqueror had won at Hastings, anti-Norman feelings in the North were high and the possibility of a Danish-backed rebellion was never far

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Very much a village pub, the Swan has a beer garden at the back to cater for the local populace, who number around 500, and visitors who come this way to walk round this quiet spot.

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

The architect was Sir Edwin Cooper, who looked back to the pre-Great War Edwardian era.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

The houses on the right back onto the Ouse. The old house with the parapet gable (right) has been divided into three cottages - one is a shop.

Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.

In the background is the Old College Hotel, a name that echoes back to the founding of the College of Jesus by the Archbishop of York in 1500.

This haunting and unusual picture shows a marching band at Frensham during the First World War.

The hospital was paid for by public subscription; Sir Robert Kindersley, a banker, gave land for its construction and one of the wards was named after him.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

A number of retailers and farmers had produce rounds in Alderley, delivering groceries, dairy produce and even wines and spirits to the door, or rather, the back door.

Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.

There were even plans in the early seventies to convert the outbuildings at the back into an 11-bedroom hotel.

The back of the Carbis Bay Hotel can be seen on the left.