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The Hall dates back to 1678, and was the first public building to be constructed after the fire of 1675.

This view, from just beside the Town Hall, overlooks what is officially called Victoria Square.

Hunstanton is unique for north Norfolk resort towns in that it looks west across the sea and not east.

Modern Eastleigh is a grid pattern of late 19th-century and early 20th-century streets, with typical suburban fringes stretching out towards Southampton and Winchester.

A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall.

This fine gabled building with huge chimneys is situated on the edge of the town, set in typical English parkland with lakes and rare trees.

The highest town in Oxfordshire boasts a striking High Street; St Mary's Church and many of the town's handsome buildings were built by prosperous wool merchants.

Less than a century after its foundation, the town was already dominating the skyline and its beaches were among the most crowded on the south coast.

The Guildhall (left) with its tower was built in 1881, and the Town Hall (right) was added in 1887 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.

The grand scale and decorated gables of the Institute are a visible reminder of a wealthier town; here the iron-works acted as a magnet which drew workers in high numbers.

East of the town, on the Louth Road, is Lincolnshire's only racecourse, since Lincoln's closed some years ago.

This gently curving street is to the east of the town.

Eckington is another north-east Derbyshire town which formerly depended on the collieries which surrounded it, but which now is finding a new focus as a commuter town for Chesterfield and Sheffield.

St Austell has been branded 'an old-fashioned and somewhat gloomy town' by a Victorian guidebook.

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar's.

The Market House (or Town Hall) with its clock and bell turret was built in the 18th century by extended and largely reconstructed by Lord Chesham in 1856.

This town was almost completely formed and defined by the production of coal.

Described as a cross between a Renaissance palace and a medieval cathedral, the Town Hall opened at the head of Princess Street in 1863.

It is difficult to connect the town of Cranleigh with its name, which means 'clearing of the herons, or cranes'.

The billboard on the right of the Town Hall advertises 'The Wicked Lady' starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason, showing at the Alexander Picture Theatre (in St Margaret's Hall).

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

Boston's Tudor decline was steep: the wool trade upon which the town had waxed fat faded away, and the river silted up.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims - it still has a Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.