Search Results

Ornate lamps and fashionable street furniture have been added to the High Street since this photograph was taken.The trees in the street have been pollarded, and the premises of John Cole and Delbridges

The addition of tramlines and the double- decker electric tram advertising the famous Ben Evans store would have been brought into service sometime after the turn of the century.

At the end of the 19th century it acquired this splendid arcade of shops off Friar Street opposite the Town Hall. Severely damaged by a bomb, its site is now occupied by Bristol and West House.

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve.

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

Its more modern replacement now obscures part of the side of the shelter.

Still independent, it has a range of real ales and guest ales and serves food. Upper Clatford is a mile and a quarter south of Andover.

In 1888, when the site for the new library at Old Cross was being dug, a jumble of stones from the 13th-century St Mary the Less were uncovered.

This late Victorian scene is typical of many of the towns and villages in England at the time.

To the left of this photograph lies a golf course; over time more land has had to be purchased owing to erosion. In front of the chemist is a 1950 Daimler Consort saloon.

It is sad that the essentially 1930s character of the shop fronts has been eroded away by plate glass and aluminium.

Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

A monument to Queen Victoria stands in the park in front of the 16th-century Christchurch Mansion.

Foregate Street was one of the city locations painted by artist Louise Rayner (1832-1924) in a work entitled 'A Busy Street'. It certainly looks busy enough in this picture.

The Master Builder's House, now an hotel, was built by Henry Adams so that he might cut a dash on ship-launching days.

A new visitor centre now marks the entrance to Conisbrough Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in the country.

What a contrast to the previous photograph this view of Kirkgate, Otley is. The lovely market town lies at the entrance to Wharfedale.

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

We are looking along Albion Terrace into Station Street, with the impressive portico of the station entrance on the left in the distance. The railway arrived in Saltburn in 1861.

This pleasant open space next to the railway line was donated as a recreation ground by Alderman Arthur Bennett, a former mayor and a passionate believer in the importance of preserving Warrington's historic

The Scotland Road area can be seen in the distance - this was at a time before the impact of the building of the Cockhedge Shopping Centre in the 1980s.

The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

After this feat of engineering in May 1981, the Academy was demolished and rebuilt! The single-storey public conveniences (far right) vanished with the building of the second river crossing.

This view from the Lord Rodney Hotel looking towards Central Station shows the increase in road signs and road markings necessary with the growth of road traffic in the 1960s.