Search Results

It is a busy day for the small Ranworth Broad, with sailing boats and dinghies out as well as a large motor cruiser.

Apart from milling, they were used to drain the fens and broads; their numbers dropped when fuel-powered engines were introduced.

Bala`s elegant main street is lined with trees and is unusually broad. This traditional market town was famous for its stocking fairs.

This is how local historian W A Abram described the Town Hall: 'The west front, 120 feet wide, with an elevation of 63 feet, presents the main entrance in the centre, by three massive arched doorways

The long, broad street winds through this attractive market town, that sits in the valley of the River Culm alongside the busy M5 motorway.

As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road. Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores. Note the cottage's tall chimney, creating the draught necessary to produce a good fire.

Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.

This ornate fountain was erected in 1912 and cost £180; it was the subject of much public debate.

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Lord Windsor, Chairman of Barry Docks and Railway Company, gave this road its name. It was designed and built as better housing, with accommodation for live-in household staff.

One of the most beautiful of the many lovely Broads churches is St Helens at Ranworth, a short walk from the staithe.

Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).

At this road junction is the Cuckfield branch of J W Upton (the Haywards Heath furniture store), next to Lloyds Bank (right).

Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.

Is this how Ebenezer Howard envisioned that his second Utopia would eventually look, when he founded it in 1919?

The curving railway line in the near distance suggests that the photographer was looking east from the B3074.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge's graceful character.