Search Results

Trade with Holland led to the building of many of the Dutch-style gabled houses that line the Strand.

Athelhampton Hall is one of two grand houses near to the village of Puddletown, both lived in at various times by members of the Martyn family.

We can see tents in the distant field, and although there has been more housing since, the beach and its surf remain as magnificent as ever.

The exuberantly decorated York House (right) was built in 1893 in a Victorian attempt to look Elizabethan - even down (or up) to the chimneys.

In the period from 1851 to 1881 there had been no increase in the town's population, and after the dock was opened many newcomers could move into the stock of existing houses.

This fine Georgian town house became the Moot Hall and residence of the Town Council around 1800. This role continued until the re-organisation of local government in 1972.

Hollyhocks grow against the building, and Myddylton House (left) has lost its Virginia creeper - instead, wisteria is in bloom.

The Victorian railway houses of New Bradwell are in the background.

Urban Fortuneswell has spread upwards from Portland Harbour to the houses beside New Road.

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564.

It was built in 1876 to designs by Norman Shaw, his only house in the area. It is now a Grade II listed building.

Sonning includes many Georgian houses and timber-framed cottages.

Coming off the old A604, now the A14, the High Street meanders through Swavesey village for over a mile passing chapels, farm houses, cottages and 19th-century terraces - very little has changed here for

The pre-war houses stand neat and square on the lane. Farington is a parish in South Ribble Borough.

Blackburn's Public Hall opened in 1923.The Sessions House is just beyond it on the right. Now called King George's Hall, it is still one of the centres of entertainment in Blackburn.

Wycombe Abbey School's first architect, was commissioned by the school to build boarding houses, classroom blocks and dormitories, which were mostly built between 1898 and 1902, with the chapel following

It stands on Leinster Lawn beside Leinster House, home of the Irish Parliament.

Originally intended for housing poor clergy, and other poor people, the hospital was founded by Bishop Walter de Suffield in 1249. Masses were to be said here for his soul in perpetuity.

Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England. The beautifully-thatched building measures only 20 ft by 10 ft; it is about 500 years old.

Ironically, having had no customs and excise provision during the 18th century, the north side of the dock was to become the site of Portcullis House, the local headquarters of Her Majesty's Customs

The long, gently sloping High Street is viewed here from its far end, with the partly weather-boarded Rose and Crown coaching inn on the right, and the old Clock House visible in the distance.

The Victorian railway houses of New Bradwell are in the background.

Situated on the corner of Sandy Lane, these courts, flanked by suburban houses, now form part of Cheam Fields Club.

The houses have survived, but unfortunately the trees have not. The absence of any traffic would be a welcome sight today.