Search Results

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.

The only link to this wonderful structure today is Pier Street, which runs from Millbay down to the Hoe.

Budleigh's sea front is mostly a Victorian construction, for a century earlier green meadows sloped down to the edge of the seashore.

The population in 1960 was 50,000, yet there are only about 75 cars parked at the station, as most people worked in the town.

A solitary pony and trap head down the street.

The crew, it is said, settled down at Beer, married the local womenfolk and repopulated the community.

Vandals burnt down the pavilion in January 2002.

Note the drystone walls leading down to the river crossing.

The steep road leading down to the bridge over the River Don at Oughtibridge, north of Sheffield, leads the eye to the steel works across the river.

The spectacular Market Cross was built in about 1600, replacing one burnt down in the major town fire of that year.

A cliff railway toils up and down the cliffside to help the bather gain access to the many miles of beach between Sandbanks and Hengistbury Head.

Down the street stands Batheaston House with its many chimneys: it was originally the home of the Walters family, 18th-century cloth merchants.

By the 1950s bingo had become popular, and the walkway down the pier was covered.

We are looking south down the length of Windermere from Todd Crag, a southern outlier of Loughrigg Fell above the hamlet of Clappersgate.

The murderer William Chadwick was tracked down and eventually stood trial at Liverpool Assizes. He was hanged in April 1890. Dominating our picture is St John the Baptist Church.

In the days when the Reverend William Downes was rector, and William Wilkinson kept the Leeds Arms, local farmers included Joseph Booth, Jonathan Marshall, Maude Thomas, John Shirt and Thomas Stanland.

The two cyclists meandering down the middle of the road would not be able to do so for long today!

Half a mile from Lyndhurst and yet located within the parish lies the scattered hamlet of Emery Down, surrounded by peaceful forest glades and countryside.

The tide here is fierce, roaring up and down at several knots. Under the right-hand section of the bridge, the swivelling mechanism can be seen.

On the left, just down from the bank, is the Guildhall, which was built in 1839 on the site of the old market house.

Fifteen years or so before this picture was taken, in the summer of 1940, an enemy aircraft was shot down over Kings Somborne and crashed in a field just outside the village.

The River Winniford (right), trickling down the valley from Chideock village, seeps into Lyme Bay through a bank of pebbles below the Anchor Inn (centre).

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.