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A front garden in Holt, Wiltshire.

This lovely little building in Rode, Somerset, is Victorian and was the village school. The left door is for girls and the right is for boys, so as was the way then, they were taught separately. There is a more modern extension to the back of the building, and it is still a school, now the Rode Methodist VC First School, where they have 85 pupils. VC stands for, voluntary controlled. A modern extension was added behind this building.

The former Fussell's Brewery lies at the centre of Rode, between Frome and Bradford-on-Avon. The brewery appears to have grown up from a small-scale brewhouse, which is known to have existed behind the Cross Keys Inn by at least 1818. With a reliable 200ft well immediately to the south of building, it expanded greatly in 1903 and 1934, to an extent that it must have served more than the immediate needs of the village. The brewery buildings constructed at that time now dominate the street scene and is complimented by the early 20th century entrance. The brewery closed in 1962 and the building is converted to flats. The Cross Keys Inn.

The village of Rode, near Frome, Somerset.

They look after their statues in Holt!

This circle was built by the Millenium Project to commemorate the centuries of quarrying on Ham Hill and the stonemasons that worked here. The fifteen stones are all of the local "hamstone". WWI Memorial at the top of Ham Hill.