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The fine Guildhall and Italianate clock tower of 1859 dominate the old centre of Liskeard; they indicate the prosperity generated during the mining boom of the mid 19th century.

The battlemented tower with its small pinnacle once sported a quaint timber belfry, which rose to a height of 130 feet.

The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences. The original manor house, The Burystead, is late Elizabethan.

In the distance is Martello Tower Q, built in 1808-10 as a defence against French invasion.

This view, looking from the church tower towards the water-splash of the Brett, shows a very different regard for timber-framed buildings from today.

The remainder of the building, with its central tower and pyramidal spire, was rebuilt by J Croft between 1861 and 1873.

The tower is Norman and the roof 16th-century. Here there is a monument to a French soldier, Colonel Coquilin, and his daughter Adeline.

No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.

All that remains are fragments of the tower keep and the curtain wall.

The church of St Michael, in the background, was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, but the west tower dates from Tudor times.

The octagonal domed tower above the porch was removed in the alterations of 1968.

The Gothic tower of the university rises above the rooftops.

Beaminster Church is mostly 15th century, though the dramatic perpendicular tower, which dominates the surrounding houses, and the arcade are 13th century.

The parish church with its medieval tower was one of hundreds of churches to suffer from the Victorian predilection for restoring ancient buildings extremely badly.

On the right is Caesar's Tower, which rises to a height of 147 ft. It was built by Thomas Beauchamp.

The 100ft height of the water tower is miniaturised, and the scene is not only breathtakingly beautiful but awe-inspiring as well.

The tower can be seen from the river, peeping through the trees.

Now the tower of St Michael`s Church is more obvious, following the destruc- tion of numbers 1 and 2 Esplanade (the Berkeley and Esplanade Hotels) in September 1942.

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

Looking across the town into Haverfordwest, the tower of the Church of St Thomas à Becket can be clearly seen on the skyline towards the centre of the picture, and the main body of the Castle with its

This view is taken from the tower.

The ruins date from the 12th to the 15th centuries; the tower, which was built between 1492 and 1524, is the latest part.

It was just 480 feet long, with facilities which included shops, a clock tower and a landing stage.

In 1752, the Rewd William Cole wrote that the tower was `one of the most clumsy and heavy ones I ever saw`. Perhaps `solid` is a kinder description.