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Birds figure strongly in the coats of arms for many old Bedfordshire families, and it is likely that the cranes of the hotel's title refer to one of these.

Behind the photographer is the Reading Blue Coat School, founded in 1646, which in 1946 moved to Holme Park at Sonning from Bath Road in Reading.

Look at the depressing differences in the first building on the left, which has gained a coat of cement render and lost its original windows.

Notice the coat of arms above the corner of the street.

Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families. The Market House is cross-shaped in plan.

The swords on the county coat of arms are seaxes, the short swords or sword knives used by the Saxons, which may in fact have been straight rather than curved. The cutting edges face upwards.

Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy

It is decorated with coats of arms, including that of the Worcestershire Hussars.

Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.

The monastery was designed by the architect Coates Carter and completed between 1910 and 1913.

Birds figure strongly in the coats of arms for many landed Bedfordshire families, and it is likely that the cranes of the hotel's sign were borrowed from one of them.

The coats of arms relate to D'Arcy. The stable block to the right contains a 19th-century Italianate chapel.

The gabled Grant's butcher's shop has been removed to the Kirkgate Museum in York, Singer's has lost its elegant shopfronts and has been texture-coated, and Star Stores opposite was rebuilt in rough replica

In about 1485 it was enlarged to its present size by John Barton, a local wool merchant whose coats of arms adorn the doorway.

The Washington coat-of-arms, three mullets and two bars, can be found in the church and the stars and stripes are flown from the tower on Independence Day.

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

The coat of arms on the inn sign depicts its name: a talbot, or hound, was the crest of the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury.

In 1824, Baines said that the hall was 'plain, comfortable and commodious', and that the exterior had recently been renovated with a coat of Roman cement.

It still looks the same as in this photograph, apart from a fresh white coat of paint and a new pub sign hanging from the wrought iron wall bracket.

These lovely almshouses of 1703 feature a striking life-size statue of a scarlet-coated Robert Berkeley in a niche on the chapel.

The morning-coated and top-hatted scholars stroll past Barnes Pool, rebuilt in 1930 in Neo-Georgian style.

Street furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up

The remaining bushes have gone, and the walls have acquired a nice bright coat of paint.

To give the bridge just one coat of paint requires 6,000 gallons of paint.