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Reaching Street, we are in 'company town', a town dominated by the shoe makers C and J Clark. It is therefore appropriate that we start at Clark's original factory, which fronts High Street.

The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells. These cells now house the museum within the Town Hall.

The market town became a borough in 1607 and since then it has had five town halls, including the Guildhall, which is now a pub, the Tudor Rose.

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin. It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.

Taunton was not always the peaceful town we know today. Industrial disputes and rural rebellions brought conflicts and riots to its streets.

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of

The street is dominated by its distinctive town clock. It is hard to believe that this scene was almost lost some 30 years later in plans to 'reconstruct' the heart of the town.

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.

The town has had a cricket team since 1844. This pavilion was opened in 1896. In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.

Annfield Plain, to the north-west of Durham, was one of several towns to attract industrial development as the number of active pits declined.

Until then Boston Dock and some large factories had to produce their own electricity.

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

Opened in 1863, it closed in 1926 when a new station for the town was opened to the rear of the town. Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

The Red Horse Hotel is where Washington Irving penned his paper on the town.

Fishing and agriculture played an important part in the economy of the area, but it was the opening up of the Western Highlands to tourism that gave the town the boost it so desperately needed.

The photograph looks from outside the present entrance to Hornsey Town Hall and towards the town centre soon after the completion of most of the buildings, and a decade before the influx of extensive but

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates. However, nothing remains of its great monastic church.

Thirty years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped

Once famous for the manufacture of ribbons, Nuneaton's industrial base diversified to include ironworks, worsted factories, cotton and silk goods.