Search Results

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

Beyond the cars and omnibuses are the clock on the Shire Hall and the frontage of the Corn Exchange.

Built of red brick, the Shire Hall was designed by local architects H Barnes and F E Coates, and was completed in 1898.

Whether it is something to love or to hate, the hunt with all its colourful trappings has brought much-needed employment to the Shires since the 18th century.

The Shire Hall was rebuilt in 1907 in an Edwardian classical style, which included the arms of West Suffolk over the doorway.

It seems to be a busy day at the Shire Hall - home to the county's court-hearings - judging by the number of people gathered outside.

The Shire Hall was built in 1789-91 by John Johnson, the County Surveyor.

Ormesby was once an important market town whose inhabitants were privileged to be exempt from county service, and from contributing funds towards the maintenance of the Shire Knights.

Here is the hunter, bred to cross in safety the open pastures of the Shires, formed in the enclosures' favourite hedge-planting material, which makes up the obstacles to its safe progress.

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

Carved from a 17-ton block of white marble from Carrara in Tuscany, Queen Victoria looks unamused as she grasps her orb and sceptre in front of the Shire Hall.

Along here were the Shire Hall, the Victoria Institute, the Hop Market, St Nicholas Church, Foregate Station, hotels, shops, and the main post office.

Like the estate on which it stands, the pub was named after the Shire Lodge, which still stands on Rockingham Road.

As other banks opened it became known as the Old Bank, the name seen here on the building to the left of the Shire Hall.

The Shire Hall was built in 1789-91 by John Johnson, the County Surveyor.

St Paul's Square became very much the civic centre of the town with the Floral Hall, the Corn Exchange, the Town Hall, the Shire Hall and County Offices looking out onto the church in its central

The Shire Hall was built in 1724; the statue below the clock face is of Henry V, placed there in 1792.

A view from the Shire Hall along what was to become a heavily congested street, until the building of the new relief road, with a string of Georgian and early Victorian shopfronts overshadowed by the

Opposite are the Shire Hall on the right and council offices on the left - until 1880 there were wharves on the site.

The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan hall.

Essex County Council had been formed in 1888, the same year as Chelmsford Borough Council, and had initially held their meetings in the Shire Hall.