Search Results

Note the variety of roof lines on the left. Fred Dickinson , newsagent and tobacconist, owned 'The Lile Bacca Shop' (left).

This view, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character.

The Bowder Stone, a 2,000-ton boulder which was transported to near Grange in Borrowdale by Ice Age glaciers, has been a source of tourist wonder for centuries.Today the stone is surrounded by trees

It was originally jettied (with an overhanging upper storey), and is the oldest known domestic building in the parish and one of the oldest in Hampshire.

Here we see the Llandoger Trow Inn, whilst a little way down the street is the Theatre Royal, home of the Bristol Old Vic since 1946.

Seen on countless calendars, this view of Derwent Water from Ashness Bridge, on the narrow road up to Watendlath, is always popular. Skiddaw fills the backdrop.

The path extends for the full length of the canal.

The church of St Lawrence is right alongside the Kennet & Avon Canal. This view today, a century later, is almost unchanged.

This is Taw Vale Parade, a new road cut through what were the riverside gardens of the houses to the right.

It presents a delightful area of green close to the town centre and is a prized area to live.

Note the array of chimney pots on the houses behind the shelters. Southend Westcliff Parade Band

A new fish market exists on this site, but little else is changed; the lighthouse on the new pier still guides ships back into the shelter of this welcoming harbour.

The Wesleyan church on the right dates from 1844, and is typical of the big town chapels at that time.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

The village bus is setting off for Looe outside the famous Punch Bowl Inn, which is said to have been used for the distribution of goods by smugglers.

The massive former Great Eastern Hotel, built in 1864, dominates this picture of the quayside. It was built for travellers who came to the Railway Pier to catch the steamers to the continent.

In complete contrast to photograph H167008, here we have a rainy morning in downtown Hadleigh by the Rectory Road shops.A pram is parked outside the butcher's shop, whilst on the opposite side of the

This town, which stands above the Colne in the north of the county about five miles from Braintree, was once famous for its silk and crepe.This wonderful post-war view looks up the High Street, with

The road is devoid of both people and traffic – is it early morning? The third house from the right, slightly lower than its neighbours, is now the post office.

A local resident described life in Caversham just before the turn of the century, when this photograph was taken: 'When we went shopping in the trap, we would stop outside the shop and the shopkeeper

Old Winchester Hill and Beacon Hill nearby are local beauty spots, and provide magnificent views over much of Hampshire.

A raised sea wall now protects the land behind from encroachment by the sea, but is being used as a backrest by some of the holidaymakers.

The harbour at Padstow originally belonged to Bodmin Priory and has had many celebrated visitors, none more so, perhaps, than Sir Walter Raleigh, who used it frequently when he was Lord Warden of the Stannaries

The parish church of St Mary was drastically restored in 1867; a century later the spire was topped in fibre-glass.