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Margate's famous Jubilee clock tower is prominent in this picture of the beach.

This is one of fifteen towers built with the defensive walls of the town between 1284 and 1396.

The building glimpsed to the left of centre with the white pediment and the tower is the old fire station built in 1922; the tower is its practice fire- fighting tower surmounted by a siren

In March 1943, one mile to the east of Reculver Towers was cordoned off, and on 11 April Wing Commander Guy Gibson tested the Barnes Wallis 'bouncing bomb' in Reculver Bay.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

It is still a popular tourist attraction - note the figures looking down on the visitors from Marten`s Tower.

An atmospheric view of St Mary's south porch and tower, in 1903. The tower shows patches of cement rendering now removed.

Tower Bridge was built for horse-drawn vehicles, but by 1920 it had to bear increasing numbers of motor cars. This view was probably taken from a moored ship near Billingsgate Market.

The boom towers originally had a chain stretched between them, which could be raised to block the River Wensum if need be.

Margate's famous Jubilee clock tower is prominent in this picture of the beach.

The church of St Mary, which stood here in c1773, was demolished except for its tower and spire, and then rebuilt.

St Mary's Church has a fine example of a Somerset tower. The original tower was 13th-century, the body of the church is 16th- century.

The boom towers originally had a chain stretched between them, which could be raised to block the River Wensum if need be.

Founded in c1200, Fonmon is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square tower or keep and a curtain wall.

We can see here that two square towers flank the archway; these are in turn supported by a pair of octagonal towers. Between the two sets of towers there was once a moat spanned by a drawbridge.

This view shows the Hammersmith bank's suspension tower and the 'chains' in close detail.

As we can see here, two square towers flank the archway, and these are in turn supported by a pair of octagonal towers.

From the avenue lined with lime trees the eye is drawn eastwards to the 162-foot high tower of St John the Baptist's, the tallest tower in Gloucestershire, containing a ring of twelve bells with the

Despite their looks, the walls and towers round York Castle and Clifford's Tower were not medieval.

To the left, beyond the old bandstand, is a good view of the Wish Tower, the Napoleonic period martello tower.

If we look closely at our top photograph, we will see that the turrets and tower of the New Brighton Tower building are missing.

The Town Hall did not need or get a clock, because the Market Hall had the town's clock on a free-standing tower in front of it.

The towered and porticoed Town Hall which closes the vista, a fine Classical building of 1834, subsequently lost its tower and has now been completely demolished: this is a great loss to the town's architecture

In the distance is the 620ft Post Office Tower, now called the BT Tower, which was added to the capital's skyline in 1965.