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The competition to design a new town hall was won by J A Hansom and E Welsh; their outline plans were preferred to those submitted by leading architects such as Charles Barry and Thomas Rickman.

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Brighton Pavilion is a fitting reminder of this town's emergence as a seaside resort.

This attractive town was the site of a timber castle belonging to the Montfitchet family, from whom it takes its name.

Now the suburbs of Poole have crept nearer, and the old village has become a small dormitory town. Corfe Mullen's mill received a mention in the Domesday Book.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

Once upon a time there was a house on the site of the Town Hall called Rosehill.

About 1785, Sir Richard Hotham, a wealthy Southwark hatter, who determined upon acquiring the glory of a seaside Romulus, set to work to erect a town of first-class villas in this pleasant spot, with a

For its size, St Mary's had more chantries than most parish churches, an indication of just how prosperous the town was between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

Tor Bay is bounded on the north by Hope's Nose (round the corner to the left) and Berry Head, seen here across the bay.

The small village of Lilbourne had a market charter granted in 1219 by Henry III, but it clearly never developed into a fully fledged town.

It was designed by William Butterfield in the prevailing neo-Gothic style, and much of its cost was met by the wealthy Windsor family.

This gorgeously ornate building is early 18th-century, and has been refurbished every century since. Before the railway - the Quay station can be seen on the left - this area was quayside.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

The Reach dates from the 13th century and used to extend further into the town.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.

The River 1903 Amid a grove of tall poplars on the banks of the River Stort are the weather- boarded malting mills, which helped to lay the foundation of the town's prosperity following the passing

Unfortunately, the town had much of its heart punched out by 1960s development. The 1897 Diamond Jubilee drinking fountain was reerected in The Steyne gardens in 1969.

I am old enough to walk on my own now!' says the child standing by her pushchair.

This coastal town, famed for its oysters, was one of many to suffer in the great tides of 1953, which damaged many homes and businesses.

Quay Town, along the old harbour quays, has been much changed since 1890. To make a promenade, all the cottages on the sea side of the lane have been demolished: a great loss of character.

Frith's photographer was looking east, past the Town Hall on the right, towards St Nicholas's Church and the abbey gateway.