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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.

St Paul's Square became very much the civic centre of the town with the Floral Hall, the Corn Exchange, the Town Hall, the Shire Hall and County Offices looking out onto the church in its central

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thundered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

Castle Street runs north from the town centre. Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

Wellington, Canning and Palmerston represented the town in Parliament.

The Town Hall with its round corner turret was designed by Liddell & Brown and built in 1907-08; the fire station in Lawson Street and the public baths were part of the same scheme.

Wellington, Canning and Palmerston represented the town in Parliament.

Wells is famed for its superb cathedral and the Bishop's Palace. The town is also a very fine one, with much of its medieval street plan intact.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than orna- ment.

His vision in 1925 was to create 'something really special' for the unplanned country village of Pitsea, turning it into a thriving town with a Tudor theme.

Now slightly nearer the town centre, we see more commercial and municipal buildings. The bus offices on the left stand opposite the old Midland Bank and the Town Hall and Library.

The centre of Baldock, at the junction of the market place and the Icknield Way, is dominated by the imposing Town Hall and Old Fire Station, opened on 25 November 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's

Temby is an exquisite fishing and resort town in Carmarthen Bay. It has a ruined castle, old stone walls, a bustling harbour, and just offshore, the romantic Caldy Island.

Yet another town that has benefited from a by-pass, and is now rediscovering itself without constant through traffic.

The market town of Baldock developed at the junction of a Roman road and the ancient Icknield Way in the mid 1100s.

Basildon is one of eight New Towns which were set up around London between 1946 and 1949, immediately after the Second World War.

Sherborne is famous for its public schools, and on most days in term time pupils can be seen threading their way around the old town.

In Saxon times this old town was known as Twyneham, meaning 'the town between the streams' - in this case the Avon and the Stour, whose waters empty into Christchurch Harbour.

The grimly-austere gritstone buildings of Rotherham Town Hall's Welfare and Health Department are typical of the South Yorkshire town's 'muck and brass' reputation.

For centuries the town was little more than a small agricultural hamlet. Then the Alsager family started to build houses and a church here in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sutton Park was one of the largest in Warwickshire, over 2,000 acres of woodlands and lakes.The park made the town something of a tourist attraction.

In 1924, this compact little town had (and still has) its own town council.

Further west along the A30, Chard is a market town laid out in 1234 by Bishop Jocelyn of Wells.

Today Little Sutton has become a suburb of the much newer town of Ellesmere Port.