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The church tower looks Norman, but the main doorway is 13th-century. Oliver Cromwell stabled horses and troops in the church after the Battle of Preston in 1648.

This photograph shows part of the Low Green, with its war memorial and the Bay Horse Inn in the background, and the tower of the parish church of St Anne beyond.

This view from Tideswell Road shows the 83 feet high 'campanile' or detached bell tower and the semi-circular apse of this 'basilica' church. It remains virtu- ally unaltered.

John Johnson's imposing Gothic clock tower, built in 1887 of white stone with sporadic red bands and gabled clock faces, was originally intended to form the centrepiece of a new building development, some

Arthur Mee was impressed by this church, and in his King's England series he wrote that the spire is 'a striking spectacle with three bands of panelling round it' and marvelled at its 'embattled tower

Barclays Bank is along the left-hand side of the street in front of the distinctive Town Hall tower.

The pinnacled Perpendicular tower of the parish church of the Holy Trinity fills the background, with the war memorial on the right.

The building underwent considerable restoration and remodelling between 1868 and 1888, including the construction of the nave and the west towers.

The two towers of Howley Power Station had dominated the landscape since the extensions of 1946, but the site had supplied Warrington's electricity since 1900.

The church tower has Saxon quoins and Norman windows, with a rare west porch and Lady Chapel.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

This was the entrance from Lumley Road to what is now Tower Gardens, before the frontage was built up with shops and cafés.

The clock tower of Burnley Town Hall can be seen in the distance (right), and on the extreme right the Kwik Snaks café is visible.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell. Another famous son of the town was J Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

Brodick was enlarged when garrisoned by Cromwell's troops, and the tower is a mid 19th-century addition.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

The tower and spire were added later.

Tower Street housed the armoury for the West Yorkshire Volunteer Artillery, and the York Volunteer Rifles were in St Andrewgate.

The tower and spire were added in the 15th century; the spire rises to a height of 120 feet. Some of the most beautiful stained glass in England adorns the windows of the building.

St Stephen's has a west tower with a spire and was almost entirely altered internally in the late Victorian period.

The abbey was embellished by its lofty twin towers in the early 1700s.

Compared with its setting, the tower and church are rather plain but inside are wagon roofs, bench ends and a restored rood screen. The granite font has carved angels with outspread arms.

The tower stands 121ft high, and the church can seat up to 1,700 people. A famous curate was the Reverend Richard Barham, who later moved to Romney Marsh and wrote the 'Ingoldsby Legends'.