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The Palace, designed by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of

This is down-town Lydney in the days when books could be loaned from the newsagents for a few coppers a week via the Argosy Lending Library, and a liquid night out at the Fleece could be had for less than

A century after his visit, the town had been transformed from a quiet village to a vibrant part of the textile industry.

Cudworth was never a pit village, although it is surrounded by collieries at Monk Bretton (opened in 1870), Carlton (1879), Grimethorpe (1897), Frickley (1905) and Ferrymoor (1917).

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

Taunton is a town surrounded by water, with the Tone passing through its heart and the marshes not far away.

It is thought that the church steps were originally built in the early 14th century to enable access to the church from the old town, and at that time the steps were wooden, not stone.

As part of a commitment to education, the Wheatsheaf pub and King Edward VII School had to make way for a new College of Advanced Technology on Market Hill in 1957.

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century, and it still commands good views to the north and

Much of the original castle burnt down in 1726, and what was left was plundered by Prince Charles Edward's men in 1745 - they also plundered the town.

This bustling scene reveals the pressures for change that beset the Victorian provincial town in the 1890s. This street of small shops is showing signs of commercialism.

But the view from the Downs had changed since then; fields were giving way to housing everywhere between Epsom and London.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

The girl carrying a baby (left) and the children playing in the boats are noticeably not visitors.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

A town grew up around this ford over the River Coly, a mayor was elected, and a cattle fair was held. Such prosperity did not last, and Colyford had declined by the 18th century.

This little group of shops was built in 1908, on the site of a former wheelwright and boat-building business.

Church Street has about it an almost faded Dickensian air, in tune with a town whose better days appear to be past, which is a great pity.

Hadleigh, in past times a significant wool town, sits alongside a tributary of the Stour.

This shows a very deserted unmade road leading into town, more familiar to motorists today, who have to slow down at the top in order to join the Bath Road into Devizes.

With the removal of both the main shopping and administrative areas of Runcorn some miles away these photographs show a town that, in the last 40 years, has changed enormously.

Known until 1933 as the Kings Arms, the Pack of Cards was built in 1626 as a town house by George Ley to celebrate a win at cards.

Brierley`s hired out rowing boats, canoes and punts from their landing stage at the corner of the Ouse and Hen Brook.