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Built on a motte which is about 48 feet high, the tower itself is just over 33 feet high.

Our clock tower is showing signs of age in this photograph from half a century ago. The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.

This panoramic view takes in Lendal Tower, the Assize Court and the towers of the Minster in the distance. Outside the walls along the section near the hotel and station was a burial ground.

On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.

This panoramic view takes in Lendal Tower, the Assize Court and the towers of the Minster in the distance. Outside the walls along the section near the hotel and station was a burial ground.

Note the heavily overgrown churchyard and the crenellated church tower. As

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

Dominating the village is the 15th-century church of St Oswald's, its tower gifted by Robert Washington.

This view was photographed from the tower of the Westgate.

Boats could enter the castle this way – there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.

This is a tall brick tower mill with a large extension grafted onto it to house a steam-driven mill. It had eight sails, as we can see from the eight-armed cross on the windshaft.

Launceston Castle is of the classic motte and bailey design: a high central tower stands on a mound surrounded by the bailey defences.

Launceston Castle is of the classic motte and bailey design: a high central tower stands on a mound surrounded by the bailey defences.

This excellent view from the church tower shows the whole village and its rural surroundings.

The layout of Stamford, climbing gently in terraces up from the Welland, is well shown in this photograph from St Martin's church tower. The churches of All Saints, St John, and St Mary stand out.

The tower, which features a corbelled stair turret, dates from 1578; this was the time when what are now termed the Z3 castles were beginning to prove popular with Scottish lords.

The Round Tower and neighbouring Square Tower squat on the old curtain wall, acting as a permanent reminder of the city's need to defend itself from enemy attack. To the right lies Broad Street.

The Round Tower and neighbouring Square Tower squat on the old curtain wall, acting as a permanent reminder of the city's need to defend itself from enemy attack. To the right lies Broad Street.

William the Conqueror's original royal fortress was a wooden tower on the motte, which in later generations would form the upper bailey.

Tower Street, its houses mostly mid-Victorian terraces and semi-detached villas, some dated 1879 and 1880, has its vista closed by one of England's most stunningly effective buildings: the Boston Stump

Situated to the south-east of Milford Church, Hurst Castle was probably built between 1539 and 1544 and comprises a twelve-sided central tower protected by a curtain wall and semi-circular bastion towers

Arnside Tower is a large, ruinous pele tower built during the 15th century as a protection against marauding Scots.

This 161 feet high clock tower caps the latter, and is known locally as Jones's Folly.

The 160ft tower of the mainly Perpendicular church of St Peter and St Paul soars majestically over the town and is a prominent day mark for shipping in the choppy coastal waters.