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The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway. The mill site is now lost to Crawley New Town development.

Behind is the brick Borough Bridge of 1870, nicknamed 'Lunatic Bridge' because of its unnecessarily high arches.

This side of the gateway has a row of flushwork arches above the entrance, and over it is a window flanked by 'windows' in flushwork. In the gable is a flushwork 10-spoked wheel.

There is a white brick Gothic battlemented arch between the first and second group. The pump was the gift of William Makin, farmer at the Hall, in 1854; it was made by Ransomes & Sims of Ipswich.

Again a much-changed view, this time looking into The Turnpike from Manor Road.

The arched entrance to The White Hart (centre) reminds us that this inn, along with others in the town such as The Berkeley Arms, rang to the clatter of hooves in the days of horse- drawn coaches.

At the east end of the nave aisle and on each side of the chancel arch are large brass posts with decorated candle holders, five in all.

Spanning the narrow street of this hilltop village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, the ancient gateway to the castle, which lies in ruins close

The church is large, and includes three Norman doorways and a sweeping horseshoe arch. The pinnacled 17th-century tower was modelled on the tower of Battersea church in London.

sprawling woodland of the Harewood Forest, this church includes two 14th- century arcades, one of which bears two strange faces on a pillar, while the other has Norman piers and 13th-century arches

From the medieval church, Blomfield also reset the two-thirds of a Norman arch as a window in the north transept.

A caravan is parked up in the first driveway just above the Morris 1000 on the road, whilst in the background a triple arch carries the railway.

Balconied houses, built circa 1900, lead us to the pedestrian arch of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's remarkable railway bridge, opened in 1839 and skilfully doubled in width in the 1890s.

St Margaret's, built on land given to the town by the local Stanhope family, is constructed in the Early English style and contains twenty interior arches. The spire was added in 1901.

Queen Anne contributed towards the restoration of the church in 1710, and the church includes a Norman arch with carved capitals. Above the capitals are the fish and bowmen of the zodiac.

This view shows the 15th-century great hall window, ten lights wide with arched upper lights.

The arch below the porch on the left leads to a vaulted crypt. The ruin stands just to the east of Bodmin church; it is still in a poor state and the window has lost its tracery.

Beneath its arch Queen Victoria and Albert passed on their way to State services at St Paul's.

It was from the window on the gable on the left, above the Angel's coaching arch, that magistrate Bethell Cox read the Riot Act to the mob of agricultural workers in November 1830, and was

The stallholder, standing to the right in his apron and straw hat, is no more than a youth, and is probably one of many hired hands working for a much larger concern.

Dating from the 17th century, the Shambles comprised several shops in an arched arcade with living accommodation over the top.

The tierceron ribbed vault 'is among the most magnificent creations of Gothic architecture in any country' (Alec Clifton-Taylor), and the richly moulded and carved pillars and arches lead the eye towards