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During the Great War she was deployed in the Mediterranean, and was sold for breaking up in 1920.

Backed with a wind-break of Corsica pine planted by Thomas William Coke in the mid 19th century, this area is a breeding ground for birds such as terns, redshank and oystercatchers.

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

The first brick was laid in 1882 and the first locomotive crossed the thirteen-arched viaduct in 1884.

The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap. It had five patent shuttered sails, as is indicated by the five-way cross on the front of the windshaft, and a fantail.

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

The village is in a Conservation area, with plenty of brick-built thatched houses in its centre.

Hence, Hay has an assortment of hotels; the brick-built Crown is of a high enough standard to warrant its RAC endorsement.

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

Flint and brick used together can produce charming patterns, as we can see on the gable-end in the centre of this picture.

The tarred octagonal single-storey brick base remains on site and is used as a storage building.

Today just a few brick ruins mark the existence of the camp.

A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall. Thame became a market town during the 13th century, and its importance as a commercial centre is still evident today.

The thatched cottages are no more; the nearest has been replaced by a no doubt very functional large brick house.

This view looks beyond the west front of the nave, and shows the present St Botolph's church of 1837, in neo- Norman style and built in white brick.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

This has all been replaced by a large brick building divided into small shops.

Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

The drainpipe (right) marks the division between the timber-framed building of 1694 to the left and a Victorian brick extension nearer to us.

It dates from Norman times, but parts of an older arch, containing some Roman bricks, may be seen in the nave. The large west tower was built in the late 15th century.

This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.

But while these red-brick buildings offered women higher education, it was only fifty years later that women became entitled to receive degrees.

The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.

The brick barn on the left at Red House Farm and the iron field fence remain, but the houses on the right have been altered and a few demolished, including the single-storey one on the corner of the quaintly-named