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By the time this picture was taken, the tram routes through Denton had been converted to trolley and petrol bus operations.

The gabled Renaissance-style Town Hall, built on the corner of Pinstone Street and Surrey Street, was designed by E W Mountford and completed in 1896; its official opening by Queen Victoria took place

Two ancient churches occupy sites in the Old Town: St Mary's in nearby Lowgate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, shown here with its attendant market stalls.

When this picture was taken, the town hall, with its 225 ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime.

Much of old Plymouth town was destroyed, irreplaceable old buildings were lost, and street patterns were changed with the rebuilding.

Much of old Plymouth town was destroyed, irreplaceable old buildings were lost, and street patterns were changed with the rebuilding.

Now called St Aldhelm's Methodist Reformed Church, this lovely little building stands alongside and open to a busy street near Corsham town centre.

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods, and the market became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

Copper (and also, to a lesser degree, lead) have been mined here since Roman times, so that the whole area of hillside behind the town is said to have dozens of pits, caves and tunnels.

Although flocks of sheep and herds of cattle no longer congregated at Tregaron ready for the walk to England, the town continued to serve as a market place for livestock for many years.

In 1831 there were only 150 people living in and around Consett.

East of Lincoln, Wragby is a market town on the Horncastle and Skegness road which is very busy at weekends and in summer.

The Town Council has its office here, and it also contains Whitby Museum, renowned for its collection of extant fossils, which is run by the Literary and Philosophy Society, colloquially

Plymouth hookers were essentially long liners, varying in size from 25ft to 40ft and from between five and fourteen tons.

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

It was now firmly on the map: its narrow crowded alleys and harbourside streets, its ruined abbey and its souvenirs made from jet, fossilised wood found in the local area, proved a magnet for day trippers

Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

The town achieved nation-wide fame in 1941 when a wartime radio show was broadcast from the Empire Theatre. On stage was Roy Barbour's comedy revue, 'Great Stuff This'.

The Esplanade 1918 In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

The array above the annexe beside the old Town Hall belongs to the telephone exchange, which moved there in 1888.

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Today the town's fortunes are based on tourism, and even the railway is no more.

More rooftops, a passing steam train (they were being replaced by diesel- powered locomotives at this time) and the sweep of the park express progress. The bandstand has arrived.