Search Results

The view down the High Street has changed very little, but the increased volume of traffic has brought traffic lights to the junction with the road to Over.

Aptly named, this wide street wends its way down to the river. In the foreground stands the Bear Hotel, formerly The Bear's Head, built around 1868, with its mock-Tudor façade.

Down the years, pyramids of waste have scarred the landscape above St Austell, creating an eerie, lunar atmosphere.

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

Following the transfer of the mail boat service to Dun Laoghaire, Howth harbour had by this time settled down to a quiet existence.

This classic view looks west down High Street to the Wey valley and beyond to Guildown (The Mount).

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt. The Congregational Chapel in the background was built in 1831.

Stand by the Burton monument and look down the High Street to compare this photograph with the scene today. The Lion and Lamb on the right has changed its name, and is now called Fridays.

Here we are looking east towards the hill down to the Hamble River. On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest.

This view looks from Market Square down Friargate.

It has spectacular views of the South Downs and Chichester Cathedral, and contains paintings by Canaletto, Van Dyck and Stubbs.

This bleak, wind-blasted village, the most westerly in England, is known locally as Church Town. The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

If one needed refreshments, the Tea Cosy Cafe was a little further down the street. All the buildings on the right-hand side were soon to be demolished and the site redeveloped by Boots.

This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.

The summit at 1083 feet is at the head of West Down at the southern point of Cleeve Common.

This pretty village was the scene of a major disaster in 1952 when the East and West Lyn rivers, swollen by torrential rain, cascaded down demolishing all in their path.

The High Street becomes Fore Street as it heads down towards the river Exe. The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

Later, they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation, and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns.The last of the bottle kilns to be used commercially closed down in 1967

the Petworth to Guildford main road.The church of St John Baptist was rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662.The Half Moon is a 16th-century inn.The Swan Inn can be seen down