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Its twin brick arches, surmounted by a central clock tower, make it a curiously modern-looking building.

This imposing Italianate building, with its lofty round-arched windows, was built by Cuthbert Brodrick in the late 1860s. It later became the Civic Theatre.

The wide arched entrance to The New Inn is a reminder that Lechlade was once an important coaching town.

The Barbican, the security tunnel through the centre arch, was added in the 13th century; it is the only remaining barbican in England.

Apart from the heavier loss of life during the so called Great War, men then overwhelmingly joined the army with local conflict saw a much wider variety of occupations in the armed forces,

The chancel arch is a striking feature of the church, as is the 15th-century tower.

A much busier view of the same scene some forty years after photograph No 60881.

According to Nikolaus Pevsner, the original design was spoilt by the addition of an arched window to the west of the Venetian windows, and the small west tower.

When the river is in flood, it also flows through the arches on the extreme right. A family stand by the high weir in the foreground. This is the site of an ancient watermill.

At a much later date, in 1997, the Abbeyfield Society took over the premises and opened Abbeyfield House, providing sheltered accommodation for the elderley.

At the time of writing, the arched Market Hall building on the left is a building site. The bay windows on the right are still in existence.

A close-up view of the roadside trees forming an arch. The Norman church is just visible through the trees, beyond a horse and cart.

Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a chemist, a hardware shop, a post office, a Martin's newsagent, a Home & Colonial store, and a much-needed chip-shop

In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

St Richard, whose brightly painted statue is in the niche above the double arch, was Bishop from 1245 to 1253; he was canonised by the Pope in 1262.

It is interesting to note that the brick cottages in the centre have a timber-framed gable end, revealing a much older origin than the brickwork suggests.

Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch.

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

This is a much-changed scene along the road leading to Maidenhead Station, for virtually nothing now survives of King Street's earlier buildings.

The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway into the village is now reduced to a footpath.

Out of sight, screened by trees, is the parish churchyard and the Victorian church; to the south of the church stands the old font in a niche below a 13th-century arch from the old church

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

Between them are the solid shapes of Sundial Cottage and Library Cottage, and No 11 with its gabled frontage above an arched doorway (centre right).

Behind the mini-van on the left, the Butchers Arms had replaced a much older half- timbered building damaged extensively by fire in 1939.