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The grassy sward in the foreground is now the Helen Garden, and the middle distance is dominated by South Cliff Tower, an unfortunate eighteen-storey block of flats built in 1966 that sits ill amid

Looking south from the bridge, the towering mass of the former Empire Hotel is on the right with its terrace. Beyond is the spire of St John the Baptist Church and the Parade Gardens.

Beyond the Clock Tower the gaps were filled in by Edwardian hotels. The bracing element of Skegness is amply demonstrated by the ladies' umbrella skills in the foreground.

All Saints Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

The view along the grass-verged straight street is closed by the dignified 15th-century tower of St Guthlac's church.

St Anne's Church tower is visible behind the handsome Stepping Stones House. The stepping stones themselves look less serviceable now, but there is also a footbridge today.

Each of the four square corner towers is topped off with octagonal machicolated turrets. The turreted east gatehouse can be seen through the trees on the right of the picture.

The keep (with the flagpole) was raised to three storeys and the outer walls and towers refaced in the 1820s: the walls still look remarkably fresh in 2000.

The cathedral looks massive, but is in fact relatively small, the central and two western towers being of no great height at all.

The 15th-century tower is all that remains of the original structure of the church of St John the Baptist - the rest was rebuilt in 1875.

One of the lasting impressions of Bolton that many a visitor has is of the grand Town Hall, with its portico of Corinthian columns and tower topped off with a French cap.

On the horizon are the towers of the Catholic church and St Gregory's. The mill lode is marked by willow trees, and behind them to the right is Walnut Tree Hospital, the former workhouse.

The 125- foot high keep of the Norman Castle and the tower of the Cathedral dominate this view of the crowded anchorage on a bend of the river, en route to its union with the Thames off Garrison point

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

Owing to inadequate foundations, the tower of St John's showed signs of stress shortly after it was built in 1420.

Since this photograph was taken the vicarage glimpsed here beyond the castellated tower has become a private house.

The Town Hall, flying the flag above its clock tower, was built in 1796.

The clock tower was built of red and white brick in 1864. It was renovated in 1987, and has seating on the ground floor. Chandler's ironmonger's shop to the left has closed.

The 15th-century tower was spared, and now serves a new religion: it supports a mobile phone mast.

The round tower, which is still there, was originally used by the ship pilots of Porthcawl as they waited for ships to signal for a pilot to bring them into dock.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Started in about 1290, and dwarfed by the mighty transept and crossing tower, they were not strictly necessary in a non-monastic cathedral, but many medieval secular cathedrals acquired them, including

The 125- foot high keep of the Norman Castle and the tower of the Cathedral dominate this view of the crowded anchorage on a bend of the river, en route to its union with the Thames off Garrison point

In this view from the top of St Mary's tower, the castle ruins can be seen in the centre background.