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Caption For Ludham, Village From Lower Ludham 1929

An overview of Ludham from the tower of St Catherine's Church shows the well-wooded, rich agricultural land surrounding the village before many of the hedges had been removed.

Caption For Newnham, The Village C1955

East of photograph N251008, Frith's photographer looks along Church Street with the 15th-century tower of St Michael's church on the right. Unusually, its lower stage is open and serves as a porch.

Caption For Doddington, Church 1906

Mostly rebuilt by Thomas Lumby in the 1770s in a fairly correct Gothic, the church has a more cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick west tower and spire.

Caption For Barton Upon Humber, St Peter's Church C1960

Lincolnshire possesses very many Anglo-Saxon church towers, and St Peter's is one of England's best.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St James' Cathedral Church, Interior 1922

The building of the central crossing tower is now under way, and should be completed in 2003.

Caption For Midhurst, North Street 1921

The late-Victorian towered building has been replaced by a nasty 1960s supermarket building, but otherwise little has changed.

Caption For York, The Minster 1908

Though the lines were owned by the North Eastern, no less than five other companies had running powers into the city.

Caption For York, The Minster 1908

Though the lines were owned by the North Eastern, no less than five other companies had running powers into the city.

Caption For Windsor, Castle Hill 1914

Henry II built the first stone buildings, including the Round Tower, which we see here in the background. The last major changes were made by Wyatville in the reign of George IV.

Caption For Bristol, The Cathedral, The Nave Looking East 1900

The present nave is 19th-century, and was built, along with the west towers, between 1868 and 1888.

Caption For Ticehurst, Church Street 1903

The medieval church, with its plain west tower and stumpy shingled broach spire, was extensively restored, not entirely successfully, in the 1850s by William Slater for the dynamic Reverend Arthur Eden

Caption For Taunton, St Mary Magdalene's Church 1888

Hammet Street, with its brick terrace houses, was laid out in 1788 off North Street, focusing on the magnificent late 15th-century tower of St Mary's church.

Caption For Taunton, County Cricket Ground 1902

Beyond are the town's two superb 'Somerset style' Perpendicular Gothic church towers, St Mary's beyond the (now demolished) factory chimney and St James' Church to the right, also a 19th-century rebuild

Caption For Mells, The Village 1907

St Andrew's Church has one of the finest west towers in Somerset; it is early 16th-century, and over one hundred feet high, with three belfry windows side by side on each face above three blank ringing-chamber

Caption For Skegness, Grand Parade 1899

Beyond the Clock Tower the gaps were filled in by Edwardian hotels. The bracing element of Skegness is amply demonstrated by the ladies' umbrella skills in the foreground.

Caption For Branston, The Church C1955

All Saints Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

Caption For Market Deeping, Church Street C1955

The view along the grass-verged straight street is closed by the dignified 15th-century tower of St Guthlac's church.

Caption For Eynsford, The Church 1905

St Martin's Church, with its wood-shingled spire, has a tower clock surrounded by a quotation from the poet Robert Browning - 'Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.'

Caption For Yardley, Bakeman House C1965

Aggregates and cladding panels have been used extensively on the tower block; with its associated shopping precinct and multi-storey car park, it overlooks an underpass and a flyover on the outer ring

Caption For Blackpool, Victoria Pier 1901

In 1875 he formed the aquarium, aviary and menageries later purchased by the Blackpool Tower Company. A poster advertises the Victoria Pierrots.

Caption For Sudbury, Floodgate Pool 1932

On the horizon are the towers of the Catholic church and St Gregory's. The mill lode is marked by willow trees, and behind them to the right is Walnut Tree Hospital, the former workhouse.

Caption For Bude, Efford Cottage 1890

It stands below Efford Down, on top of which is the Storm Tower, also built by Acland.

Caption For Bildeston, Market Square C1965

The clock tower was built of red and white brick in 1864. It was renovated in 1987, and has seating on the ground floor. Chandler's ironmonger's shop to the left has closed.

Caption For Burnley, Manchester Road 1952

The River Irwell, beside which Bacup lies, powered the first mills in the town, and the Irwell Mill, whose square tower rises at the back, was one of several providing employment in the town