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As we can see in this photograph, the market place stands above the main road through the town, and so is often missed by visitors.

The Normans established a town, and provided the church which was dedicated to St Nicholas.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

This time the position was right: it was about one and a half miles out of town, and set in the new suburbs along the Cliftonville Road.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

A deck chair and a roll of wire fencing stand outside the ironmongers in Spring Street.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Stourport's close proximity to the industrial cities of the Midlands made the town and the rivers a favourite day out around this period.

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.

Colchester is often described as Britain's oldest recorded town - this was a town of vital importance to the Romans.

Alongside the Market Cross, and also in Blue Lias limestone with Ham stone dressings, is the Town Hall.

This view, taken from the station, shows the town and Cadair Idris, the River Wnion, the famous 17th-century bridge and tollhouse, and the tower of St Mary's church.

The electric tramway ran from Chester General station through the town and crossed the Dee by way of the Grosvenor Bridge.

Ashford has for centuries been an important market town, and scenes such as this, with the sheep in the middle of the street, were once a familiar sight.

The population of Cheltenham grew from three thousand in 1801 to over thirteen thousand just twenty years later; this was a sure sign of Cheltenham's success as a spa town and residential centre.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

Another view of the High Street at a less congested point and on a very hot and sunny summer's day: the shopkeepers have lowered their sun-blinds to protect their wares, and the lady on the left has

This attractive small town sits on a hilltop overlooking the valley of the LIttle Dart.

Once just a hamlet of fishermen's cottages, Budleigh grew as a town and watering place in the first half of the 19th century, when a number of well-heeled society figures took up residence.

'Henley, a market town, and one of the neatest, cleanest, and most respectable in the County ... is exceedingly pleasantly situated on the west side of the river Thames'.

We are further down into the town and looking back up towards the clock tower, which is just visible.

Another open area of Newton Abbot is Decoy, to the south of town.

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

Broad Street boasts a great variety of inns and hotels.