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288a Main Road
1/5 Novelist Mark Haddon reflects on the house in Northamptonshire that was his childhood home

Queensferry Crossing, Scotland
4/5 Dr Gavin Francis on the largest balanced cantilever bridge ever to be built.

Chesterfield's Crooked Spire, Derbyshire
3/5 Poet Helen explains why Chesterfield's Crooked Spire Church has inspired her.

Impington College, Cambridge
2/5 Painter Humphrey Ocean introduces Impington College, built by architect Walter Gropius.

Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she worked.
5/5 Novelist Kit de Waal reflects on the architecture of the prison where she once worked.