Search Results

A view of Staithes harbour showing, in the background, the two rows of houses known as Cowbar.

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564. The garden was planted out with trees and flowers mentioned in the Bard's works.

An older building burnt down in 1742; the house we see here was erected soon afterwards by the Napier family.

Cars have replaced horses, and just out of shot, on the right, would be the Rose and Crown public house. Today, the Post Office, the first building on the right, is a bathroom showroom.

A late 19th-century advertisement for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or

A late 19th-century advertisement for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties

This rambling 15th-century hall house has changed little over the years. It is inscribed with the initials of Stephen Chilman, who modernised it in the 17th century. Today it is a private home.

Time stands still on a summer's afternoon, with houses going back four hundred years placed all around the square. The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.

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.

The house, now a museum, has changed little over the years and includes her writing table, as well as a collection of documents and letters.

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

The house looks much the same today, though it is now a conference centre. The bridge in the foreground is 18th century, built of brick rubble with a moulded parapet.

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 house, now a museum, has changed little over the years and includes her writing table, as well as a collection of documents and letters.

An old building dating from 1730 is still known as the barracks, a name said to derive from its use as a lodging house for lead miners.

Note the house under construction on the right-hand side.

Wetheral congregates around its spa- cious triangular village green, which is overlooked by a number of fine, large 18th-century houses.

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

Sydling's manor house, a possession of Winchester College, was leased to Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, in 1590.

The old Litany Desk commemorates parishioner Henry Nicholson, 'a chief musician in this House of God'.

The 16th-century thatched Plough public house with its low ceilings, exposed beams and stone flagged floor is still open today, but the post office, across the road, has closed since the time this photograph

Although only visible from its sign in this picture, the Green Man is a magnificent timbered public house.

Sheffield Polytechnic was formed in 1969 with the amalgamation of the Sheffield Colleges of Technology and Art; the new institution was housed in purpose-built facilities on land between Howard Street