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Cottages sit beside Skilling Hill Road in a panorama eastwards across the double vales of the River Simene and the River Brit.

The tower of Holy Trinity church is just visible above two fields in the centre of town, and terraced houses along Bodmin Road and the Workhouse can be seen towards the left of the picture

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved in 1888, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports. Here we see a paddle steamer moored at the harbour wall.

This pleasant scene, just three-quarters of a mile from Park Square, is a good indication of the rural nature of the town and its economy at the time.

The River Irwell, beside which Bacup lies, powered the first mills in the town, and the Irwell Mill, whose square tower rises at the back, was one of several providing employment in the town

The River Irwell, beside which Bacup lies, powered the first mills in the town, and the Irwell Mill, whose square tower rises at the back, was one of several providing employment in the town

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

When our cameraman visited Newton Aycliffe, it was still very much a new town and was still being developed by the Grenfell Baines Group.

Go back into town and cross the Pulteney Bridge with its small shops into Argyle Street.

In this wide street, cars can park on both sides of the road and still allow for traffic. Cannon Street is one of the oldest parts of the town, and dates from the 1850s.

This view looks up Highbridge Street from the river bridge to the Abbey church and its impressive 16th-century west tower.

The lantern tower of St Botolph's dominates the town and the surrounding countryside. The river flows down into the Wash.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering Windermere.

For so long Eastleigh has been synonymous with marshalling yards and the grime of the railway age.

The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.

Jane Austen visited the town and adored the setting, capturing her enthusiasm in her novel. 'The young people were all wild to see Lyme', she wrote as her characters approached the town.

The 180ft-high spire dominates the town, and looks down onto the heart of the shopping area.

Despite being hemmed in by the surrounding hills, by the turn of the century Carmarthen was already a sizeable and bustling town.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

There was a time when Barnard Castle was one of a number of prosperous towns in the Palatinate; the others were Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sedgefield, Staindrop and Wolsingham.

Named after the founder of the steel works, this imposing brick building in Rockingham Road was constructed in 1937 to cater for the large number of schoolchildren coming into the town and to ease