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A police station is a place where Police officers work. A police station might have interview rooms, storage for confiscated items, holding cells for people who have been arrested, storage for paperwork, and offices for Police officers to complete that paperwork in.

P is for Post office

A post office is a place where letters and parcels are sorted before being delivered to your mailbox. Most post offices also sell cards and gifts, and you can pay your bills at the post office too.

P is for Prison

A prison, also called a jail, gaol or penitentiary, is a place where people who have done bad things are locked up as a punishment. Some people can be put in jail for many, many years because they have done something very, very bad.

P is for Pub

A pub, sometimes called a bar or in some areas a hotel, is a place where alcoholic drinks like beer are sold. Pubs are a place for people to go and have fun with friends, play snooker or darts, listen to live music, and generally have a good time.

Q is for Quarry

A quarry is a large hole in the ground where rock is cut from to use for other purposes. Stone for making buildings from was taken from quarries before bricks were in widespread use.

R is for Ranch

A ranch is another word for a farm, particularly one that is used for grazing cattle. Someone who works with cattle on a ranch is called a cowboy.

R is for Restaurant

A restaurant is a place you go to eat. The chef at the restaurant makes the food for you and serves it to your table.
There are many different kinds of restaurants serving many different kinds of food. Some serve cheap food that you can take away, others serve expensive food and fine wines and are a good place to take someone to impress them if you want them to marry you.

S is for Salon

A salon is a place of business where beauty services are sold such as hair styling, manicures and pedicures.

S is for Saloon

Saloon is another word for bar, a place where alcoholic drinks are sold.

S is for Sawmill

A sawmill is a place where trees that have been cut down are turned into planks and other sizes of timber for use in making houses, furniture and other things.

S is for School

A school is a place you go to to learn things, like how to read and how to write. School is a very important time in your life. You will meet friends you might have for many, many years, and you will learn all the things you need to know as an adult.

S is for Sewer

A sewerage system is a network of pipes under a large town or city that is used to transport waste water from houses and other buildings to a sewerage treatment plant. Sewers carry water from your toilet, washbasins and shower as well as any other water that goes down the drain.

S is for Shade

Shade is what we call a large shadow that you can sit or stand in. It is cooler in the shade than in the sun. If there is no shade, you can make your own by setting up a large umbrella or a tent.

In the picture, the sheep are all resting in the shade.

S is for Shop

A shop is a place that sells things. Most shops sell one particular kind of things - the shop in the picture sells clothes. You go into a shop when you want to buy the things that they sell in that shop.

S is for Slum

A slum is a place where very poor people live. Slums are usually filled with rubbish and have a very large number of people living in them.

S is for Store

A store is a place where you can go to buy things. Another word for store is shop.
It is also a verb, that means to put something into storage.

S is for Street

A street, or road in a city or town is a place that people live on, or that has shops on. There are buildings on either side of the street and people walk or drive on the street.
A very narrow street like the one in the picture is sometimes called a lane.

T is for Tomb

A tomb is a structure where the remains of the dead are kept, which is different to a normal grave were the remains are simply buried. There are lots of different names for tombs in different cultures, such as mausoleum or crypt. The ancient Egyptian pyramids were originally built as tombs. Like the pyramids, many tombs of rich or influential people are very large and elaborate.
A train station is a special place that you go when you want to take a ride on a train. Trains take a long time to slow down or speed up, so train stations are usually quite some distance apart.

T is for Tunnel

A tunnel is a long hole that opens at both ends. Tunnels are used to get places underground. They can be so small only a person or small animal can fit through them, or they can be big enough for trucks or trains to drive through.