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Places & Buildings

The tidal steps of Northmere

A flight of broad stone steps served a harbour through more changes of trade than its builders could have anticipated.

Nineteenth centuryRead
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Places & Buildings

Under cover in Ashencombe

The shortest route across the market became a small interior street, with its own rules about who could stop and who must keep moving.

Late Victorian periodRead
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Places & Buildings

A warm afternoon in Harvenby

A modest glasshouse gave a northern town somewhere green to go when its public gardens were at their least inviting.

Interwar yearsRead
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Places & Buildings

The pump house after the pumps

At Wethermere, a redundant utility building became a meeting place without entirely losing the shape of its working life.

Mid-twentieth centuryRead