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The competent engineers left a space for turbulent seas to break through and lessen the strain on the masonry.

Housing has not yet developed out into the fields where tall elm trees break up the line of the hedgerow on the right.

At this point it is the Art College, and the rock-pop era is about to break in on our rather sedate photograph.

The Somerleyton Brickworks, over to the left of the photograph, supplied brick via the river system both locally and nationally.

With bright blue woodwork set against locally made bricks, this is an eye-catching building. The railings in the foreground were recently replaced with a brick wall.

Trees and shrubs are used to break up the hard lines of the modern architecture. The weather canopies and the water feature have since been removed.

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

Erosion causes precipitous breaks, producing two miles of sheer cliffs from West Bay to Beach Road at Southover (right), where the boats and a cafe can be glimpsed.

The gabled red brick front dates from c1680. The side range of white brick was added in the 1920s. Two of the windows have become doors, while the grass to the left has become a car park.

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.

landscapes; to the left, corn is stacked up in stooks ready for harvesting, while to the right, behind the houses, a chimney and the huge shape of the spoil tip of the pit which gave the village its name breaks

The midships wheel, lying fore and aft, was used to make easier the back-breaking task of hoisting sails.

The first tended to break down and the second could only carry eight cars.

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

Services in Lyme Bay were reinstated for a short time after a break during the Great War, from Weymouth via West Bay on summer Tuesdays and Thursdays, and went on to Seaton, Sidmouth and Torquay.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.

A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation. The brick tower is tarred black for extra weather protection.

From further west this view gives a good idea of the Georgian and later brick frontages added to the mainly 17th century timber-framed cottages lining the High Street and giving the town its distinctive

If greater prosperity meant that more people could take a week's break, there were still many more who were left behind.

It was 175 feet deep, and was notorious for breaking its rope and losing the bucket.

The ornate tomb on the left is inscribed 'Until the day break and the shadows flee away'; it is a monument to the Hirst family, and was first used in 1884.