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The fine Georgian tower of St Peter's church was built in 1758, replacing the medieval one which was damaged by an earthquake in 1692.

The tower stands out because of its unique design of an unusual octagonal shingled spire. In 1853 the great-grandparents of Queen Elizabeth II married here.

The church was founded in 1107 and was the cause of bitter rivalry between town and prior, culminating in each faction building its own 15th-century bell towers.

It is mainly a 15th-century building, with the sandstone tower dated to 1480. There are several charming thatched cottages in the centre of the village.

To the left of the tower stands the Belfry Tree, a huge sycamore which blew down in a gale a decade after this picture was taken.

The central tower has an impressive vaulted ceiling.

At the centre of this photograph lies the Norman tower of Oxford Castle. Within its precincts lie a Saxon mound and a Norman crypt.

Broadway Tower is a 65 feet high folly built in the 18th century by the 6th Earl of Coventry. On a clear day, 13 counties can be seen from the Gothic battlements.

The Bandstand (foreground) once stood on the site of today's public bowling green before moving to this site near Smeaton's Tower.

The commanding tower of the village parish church overlooks the quiet South Yorkshire village of Sprotbrough, now divorced from the neighbouring town of Doncaster by the busy A1M motorway.

St Bartholomew's dates from the 1200s, and much of the 62ft tower is original. The church has stocks and a charnel house in the graveyard. The name Colne means 'roaring river'.

The wall on the right belongs to the Congregational Church of 1874, demolished apart from the tower for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1980.

The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's church.

It is noted for the many gargoyles that festoon its tower, while inside there is a monument to the First Earl of Ellesmere.

The tower was rebuilt in flint faced with brick in about 1390, at the time when the city took it over from the Cathedral Priory.

The Martello tower is again visible in the distance. The superb lines of the boats of the Howth fishing fleet can be seen clearly.

The 16th-century granite church tower is behind. Gulval is still a separate village, even though it is only a mile outside Penzance.

In the background we can see the tower of the abbey church.

This ornamental clock tower greets visitors who enter the town along the A48 from the direction of Gloucester.

Here we see Maldon's famous promenade— now Promenade Park—with a fine array of fishing boats; the tower of St Mary's church, with its landmark little white spire, can be seen in the background.Today

Bridge Street leads on to Wood Street, where there is a fountain and a clock tower presented to the town in 1888 by an American visitor.

The church is Georgian, and is built of faced ashlar in a plain but impressive style with Venetian-style windows and a small tower with an octagon top.

This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.

It has a brick tower which once had four patent sails and a fantail. It was converted to a private house in 1902. The scene is now little different from that shown in the photograph.