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Plymouth hookers were essentially long liners, varying in size from 25ft to 40ft and from between five and fourteen tons.

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

The town achieved nation-wide fame in 1941 when a wartime radio show was broadcast from the Empire Theatre. On stage was Roy Barbour's comedy revue, 'Great Stuff This'.

The Esplanade 1918 In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

The array above the annexe beside the old Town Hall belongs to the telephone exchange, which moved there in 1888.

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Today the town's fortunes are based on tourism, and even the railway is no more.

More rooftops, a passing steam train (they were being replaced by diesel- powered locomotives at this time) and the sweep of the park express progress. The bandstand has arrived.

It was largely financed by the Duke of Buccleuch and the Duke of Devonshire. In 1866 the churchwardens, headed by James Ramsden, organised the town's voluntary fire brigade.

Christchurch (or Christchurch Twyneham, to give the town its old name) is one of the oldest settlements on the south coast, probably being in existence even before the Romans settled in the shelter

The Glyndwr Hotel (left) speaks of the importance of his memory in this busy little town on the A5.

Chagford is a tiny market town on the eastern slopes of Dartmoor, close to the upper reaches of the river Teign.

A further view of the High Street taken eight years after photograph 35669, this time from closer to the columns of the Town Hall.

The Arndale House building is much the same, but the cinema has made way for the Cornhill shops, and beyond the canopy of the Town Hall extension are the new shops which have

Romanby Green at Northallerton, a little town on the River Wiske on the western edge of the North York Moors, gives the impression of a village green.

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached. Parkgate was a popular yachting centre.

The little town of Corfe is older than its castle; it is the Corvergate of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

Below the Town Clock the blackened sandstone of Holy Trinity Church bears witness to the effects of industrial pollution. Meanwhile a rag and bone man trots on his way in front of the Metro Cleaners.

The increasing sizes and numbers of vehicles led to the town centre being by-passed. The building behind the man on the Corgi (centre right) has been demolished to create Angel Link.

The buildings to the left are the river side of Quay Street and served as port facilities for the town. Quay Street was also once known as 'Schippistrete', a very descriptive title.