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The salt industry both here and at Nantwich suffered as a result of the shelving of a scheme to open the rivers of these towns to navigation.

Despite the growth of Shifnal (it developed to provide accommodation for both Birmingham and Wolverhampton to the east and the new town of Telford to the west), it has managed to retain

Over on the left is the Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North Western joint railway station, which was conveniently built next to the steamer berths.

Ivybridge was a modest town when this view was taken. Now it is a dormitory for Plymouth, and has grown dramatically in recent years.

George Smith's Town Hall of 1830, which with its Ionic columns and Tuscan pillars bears a remarkable resemblance to the Corn Exchange at Bishop's Stortford and dominates St Peter's Street and its avenue

Teignmouth remained a fashionable resort for two centuries, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars when eminent socialites made the town their own.

With a little stretch of the imagination one can visualise the original medieval town huddled below the abbey and the church.

The name means simply 'long street', and the village is spread along the main road, originally the Roman road running from London to Caistor St Edmund, the Roman town just south of Norwich.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Extensive stretches of the old medieval town walls survive today, and many of the towers and gates are still standing.

Margate suffered from both bombing and shelling during the First World War, and many people left the town.

The Square is the natural focus of this former iron-mining town on the western fringe of Ennerdale and the Lake District hills.

Salmon still mass below the weirs in spring and the town's former mills have found a new life as apartment blocks.

It is said that from time immemorial Love Lane was the place where ladies of questionable virtue would be found, and this is how it appeared a hundred years ago, just out of town.

The Town Hall was designed by Andrews Jelfe, a London master mason in 1743. On Mayoring Day the council members and guests, somewhat unkindly, throw heated pennies to the crowd from the upper windows.

The road from London leads naturally into Cheltenham's High Street, which is one of the original thoroughfares of the town.

Leaving the town centre we move along Church Street to the Missenden Road, just past the junction with Pednor Road and Wey Lane.

The Town of Kendal Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent— was founded on the wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.

The town has not always been as peaceful as this picture suggests.

A border town with a ruinous castle built by Henry III, Hawarden lies close to Chester on the former main road into Wales from the Dee lowlands and the Cheshire Plain.

Westborough is one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

Westborough is one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.

The furniture legacy from this period can be found mainly in the western part of town: many are relatively small two-storey structures up to 100 feet long, and date mostly from the first two decades