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Here we see the funfair actually on the sands above the high water mark, including a helter-skelter tower.

The minster's twin towers dominate most pictures of East Street, but Hawker's new drapery shop (centre right) comes a close second in this shot.

Moorgate runs towards Cannon Square, and the trees belong to the churchyard - the pinnacled tower of St Swithun's church rises on the left.

The church is dedicated to St Wilfrid, and local legend has it that this is where the Cheshire cat originated – there is a carving of a cat on the tower.

The five hundred-year-old parish church tower of St Paul's shows up at the top of our photograph.

The 15th-century tower with flushwork battlements and pinnacles had a short spire until 1845. The clock dates from 1841, and the bell hangs above the tall stair turret.

This is not the best end of the village architecturally, but we can see the tower of the parish church of 1827 in the distance.

We are a little further north-west, and the clock tower disappears from view. The view is little changed since the 1950s, apart from more parked cars.

The west tower was rebuilt in 1547 from the stone of Ramsey Abbey. In the churchyard is the well beside the spring that was said to cure ailments of the eyes.

The bell cage was erected in the early 16th century, probably as a temporary measure while the tower was rebuilt. The cage is not unique, but the method of ringing is.

The façades appear historic and full of detailed interest whilst the clock tower adds a touch of distinction. The chapel turret vies with the tall chimney of the Big Schoolroom.

The wooden fortifications at Allington were soon replaced with stone; it is thought that the work was carried out by Gundulf, the Conqueror's master builder, who was also responsible for the Tower of London

Dedicated to St Mary and St Stephen, the parish church was rebuilt in the late 1840s; all that is left of an earlier 12th-century structure is the lower part of the west tower.

The clock tower dates from 1679. The coat of arms of Watton is a hare and a barrel: they can be seen above the clock and again on the weather vane.

At the divide, under the clock tower, the left-hand fork heads for Pinner village, while the right-hand one will cut through the mediaeval deer park at Pinner Park to Hatch End.

Very much an architectural relic of a former age, including its clock tower, the bus station looks very similar today, except that the high-level balcony on the left has gone.

The tower can be accessed, and it gives a wide view of Southampton Water. Behind the hospital ran the railway, and some rails remain.

A rucksack-clad rambler (left) admires Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon.

St Andrew's was built in the 13th century, and the tower was added late in the 1500s by Bishop Braybrook.

Porlock's church, dedicated to the 6th-century Welsh Celtic saint Dubricius, has a 13th-century tower with a later shingled spire which is curiously truncated.

In July 1901 it caught fire; the tower collapsed, but it was quickly rebuilt. It caught fire again in November 1935, but the 200ft clock tower was again rebuilt.

Archetypal 1930s development swishes around the foot of Harrow on the Hill, with its gasworks tower always visible from the village and on the approach to Northolt Aerodrome.

10th-century Anglo-Saxon church tower at Earls Barton.

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