Search Results

They are shown here against the northern wall of the Bridewell in The Bury, which was purpose-built in 1743 as a prison or house of correction; by 1847 it had become a police station.

When the railway opened in 1840 a horse bus took passengers from The Golden Cross to the station at Aston Fields. A bell was rung to let passengers know when the bus was ready to go.

This 1940s view from the station, which is some way south of the town, shows just how many trees were still left then.

It is close to the lane that goes down to the village school, and faces one of the entrances to the railway station from where these men departed forever.

The buses now leave from an ugly new station round the corner, with a footbridge providing pedestrian access from Bond Gate.

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

At the west end of Blue Anchor there is a station on the West Somerset Railway.

This is a much-changed scene along the road leading to Maidenhead Station, for virtually nothing now survives of King Street's earlier buildings.

The red brick village, which has expanded to become interesting rather than beautiful, has excellent examples of Leicestershire vernacular, from the 17th-century Stuart House in Station Street to the

There was a railway station nearby, but the line is now closed. Lavender Cottage dates back to the 15th century. In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

As usual in those days, the village had its shop, and Brant Broughton also had its own petrol station, just the one pump selling Esso petrol.

Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

Formerly, a railway line from the station to the slate quarries ran across by the mound (centre).

Like the St Anne's hotel, the County Hotel near Lytham's railway station had golf rooms HQ.

Anyone familiar with the centre of Winchester will know the station approach. One feature that sets this scene apart from that of today is the amount of advertising.

The Tal-y-Llyn railway was used originally between 1866 and 1946 to haul slate from the Bryn Eglwys quarry at Nant Gwernol down to Tywyn Wharf station.

Its replacement, the Railway Hotel that we see here, was built between the wars at the Station Lane junction. The pub became especially well-known for its home-cooked hams.

Two doors up there are postcards outside the stationer, book- seller and Athenaeum Library of Evans Harrison.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

In 1865 the Bristol Port & Pier Railway opened its single line between Avonmouth and Hotwells with intermediate stations at Sea Mills and Shirehampton.

That much-maligned but vital facility of the motorway network, the service station, was an early landmark.

On the extreme right, the railway station would become an amusement arcade, and in 1904, the Pavilion would be built nearby.

Fortunately, the station was saved; it is now a private residence with stunning sea views.