The imposing Bridge House, with a datestone of 1883 (left), was originally the Conservative Club; it was later used as a youth club, and was restored in 2003 and converted into business premises.
On one of Stony Stratford's first
bridges over the River Great Ouse, Grilkes Inn
had been operating since 1317, possibly the
oldest alehouse in Buckinghamshire; and the
Cross Keys (1475) and the
A mile and a half north-east of Daventry, the Grand Junction (formerly the Grand Union) Canal cuts through the limestone ridge via the Braunston Tunnel.
This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the
work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock
on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.
The awful height of the fissure which the bridge bestrides a hundred feet above the observer, rendered doubly gloomy by its narrowness, and the wood which overhangs it; the stunning noise of the torrent
The awful height of the fissure which the bridge bestrides a hundred feet above the observer, rendered doubly gloomy by its narrowness, and the wood which overhangs it; the stunning noise of the torrent
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