Search Results

There are architectural contrasts here as well: the ornate late Victorian Digby Mansions with a domed corner tower (left), with Thames Tower beyond, built in 1962 for United Distilleries, extended

No-one could pretend that this scene is one of romantic beauty, but this long row of late 19th-century terraced houses with its excellent corner shop has a well mannered charm.

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.

Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.

The house with a curved corner on the right was demolished in 1938 to widen Bridge Street.

To the left are the arched and mullioned windows of the 1661 Almshouses; partly hidden is Ashlar House, which is mid 18th- century and set at the corner of Pound Lane, which leads to the moated Manor

Whitworth's the grocer's is on the left-hand corner. The Tiger's Head, in the centre, also had a taxi service run by Sid Bonnett.

By now Hitchman's the chemists had been swept away: Montague Burton had built an art deco emporium (left) on the corner of Silver Street.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

Opposite is the Grey Horse Inn, and on Church Lane is Glencoe Cottage of 1874, with a passage from the Psalms on a corner tablet.

doors along is Boots, 'the largest chemist in the world', and just beyond that Sainsbury's, with its distinctive shop interiors, spacious, practical and hygienic, worlds away from the small, cramped corner

This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north-west corner of Powys, so distant that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and just ten miles from the sea.

Much of this corner of the Market Place has changed since this photograph was taken.

Dating from about 1880, it has corner towers with conical roofs and full machicolated battlements.

The corner of the building on the far left is a good timber-framed house with a jettied east front facing the church; both it and the church escaped the 1786 Great Fire.

The tall stone building on the right with the heavy cornice is Debenhams store on the corner of Market Street. This was originally Griffin & Spalding's store, and built in the 1920s.

These offices were built just before the last war on the corner where Tyler's the nursery gardens had been in 1900, but they have now gone.

Older readers will remember the United Dairies shop on the corner of Malcolm Road, since replaced by Waitrose. The tall building on the right is Lloyds Bank.

The gardens for the Prospect Hotel (rebuilt in 1870) on the corner used to extend down to the road and over the site of the memorial.

The large building on the right, at the entrance to the village, has always been known as Sappers Corner.

This view looks southwards along Shawfield Road with two complementary shops on each corner. The Brinkworth Stores, on the right, sold groceries and provisions.

The corner shop is that of Cox and Humphries, a hardware and sports store, with Boots the Chemist towards the Market Place.