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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.

While many houses burned down in the fire of 1659, the 15th century church of St. Edmund survived because the churchyard served as a fire break.

The brick-built Congregational church on the corner of Union Street and King Street was opened in 1912 and still flourishes, now as the United Reformed Church.

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 Rush Cutters has a late 16th-century core, evident in the octagonal brick chimneys on the right and the massive stack behind the left hip. The houseboat is a real period piece.

This splendid red-brick Tudor house was once Chillington Manor, home of the Wyatts; one of the family, Sir Thomas the younger, led the rebellion against Queen Mary's marriage to Philip of

The red-brick Tudor manor house of Kentwell Hall stands at the northern end of Long Melford. Today it is best known for the striking Tudor Rose brickwork maze set into the courtyard.

This hotel near the sea front has brick walls with flint gables and garden walling. The tall chimney pots are all the same size. A flint walled outbuilding has a corrugated steel roof.

This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring

The Italianate, red brick Market Hall with its imposing clock tower was built in 1857, and still forms the centrepiece of the town's lively regular outdoor market.

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

The first 'King Orry' paddle steamer was built in 1842 by shipbuilders Aitken & Napier and sold in 1858. 'King Orry II', built by R Duncan & Company, was launched in 1871.

This splendid photograph shows Bisham Abbey overlooking a scenic stretch of the Thames.

Hurt Wood Mill is a small brick tower mill with four patent sails and a fantail. It is located on a remote hilltop surrounded by woodland. The mill has now been converted into a private house.

This is a Kentish white weatherboarded smock mill with a two-storey octagonal brick base, powered by four eliptic spring sails and winded by a fantail. It has now gone, and the site is built over.

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

On the left is the red brick and stone Lloyds Bank building, with its fretted skyline, while to the right is the neo-classical Post Office, built in 1881.

Loyal enthusiasm reached a peak with Queen Elizabeth II's arrival at the Derby, but spectators' loyalties were divided between the two horses that fought out the finish.

Here we see a corner in the old part of the fishing village, with a Victorian granite house added on the right. Flower pots are all around the upper bay window ledge.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting

The spire, a timber one added in 1702, was replaced by the present low tiled pyramid in 1924, for the visual benefit of the church.

Here we see the brick-built army buildings of this military settlement in Surrey's army quarter on the high heathlands of the north west of the county.