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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. Southend

Now a National Trust property and open as a museum, this stone, brick and timber building is said to be the smallest town hall in Britain.

It is the oldest surviving brick building in Norwich, and is reputedly haunted by Old Blunderhazard, a ghostly rider who gallops past on Christmas Eve.

The record-breaking champion jockey Fred Archer, who was born in Cheltenham in 1857, grew up in the 16th-century half-timbered King's Arms Inn where his father was landlord.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

Behind the barn is the red-brick rectory where the great 17th- century scholar Meric Casaubon lived and died. He is buried in Canterbury Cathedral.

Just up from the pub are the elegant red brick offices of Peter, Peter and Sons, Solicitors, built in 1911 by Claude Hurst Peter.

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

A view taken from the war memorial pictured in No 71402, showing the subtle changes wrought in some thirty five years - a flint-built house with brick decoration now stands on the left, creeper

Some are built of brick or flint, and some are creeper-clad. The village was once an important port on the River Adur.

Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.

The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs. The ornate clock tower was a gift to the town in 1905 from Alderman J R Birkett.

Bricks were made here in Victorian times, and there were several flour mills.

During the 1980s the green wooden Village Hall, opposite, was replaced by a modern brick building.

Puriton's brick and tile industry has now gone, but Middle Street is much the same today. Biggs' general store (right), now the post office, sits here above Good's Farm.

Marsh Windmill is a large Fylde-type brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. Dated 1794, it worked until 1922.

The late 17th-century tower with its liberal use of salvaged Roman brick fell in the 17th century.

Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone. The van parked on the left of the street is advertising Mackeson's stout.

These vast buildings, the brick ones in part dated 1886, are well known landmarks when approaching Wellingborough from the south.

To the left, Wilson's façade is a fine example of Victorian decorative brick work.

The railway from Heacham to Wells was a lifeline for the export of local grain, vegetables, bricks and shellfish for metropolitan markets.

Its historic buildings, ranging from medieval half-timber to Georgian brick, are well-preserved today.

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Consecrated in August 1830, St Peterís church is built in brick and stone; it consists of chancel, nave, north and south porches, and an eastern tower with a spire containing a clock and six bells