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These whale bones were brought to the town by a local trader, a reminder of Teignmouth's importance as a port.

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.

The Town Hall stands on the left of this photograph, which was taken from outside the church and looking down Highbridge Street.

This elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

A fragment of the medieval Town Wall, this postern gate allowed the townsfolk to obtain drinking water from springs at the Greyfriars.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

This admirable market town, with its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, was once hailed as 'the Montpellier of England'. Five roads meet at the market square.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

Everyone is posing for the camera right through the town centre, and in the road too. Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right.

The most famous Shambles is in York but many towns had their shambles or meat market at one time.

By the 18th century, Ormskirk was already an important agricultural and market town, but with the arrival of the railway in 1849 it rapidly developed as an attractive residential area for Liverpool's prosperous

This is an altogether more busy scene ), and newly emancipated women boldly walk in all directions. The elegant Swan Hotel dominated the square, then and now in fact.

As Reading expanded south, St Giles', decaying and small, proved unable to cope, and Christchurch was built in 1861-2.

When Brunel built his Great Western Railway in the 1840s, Didcot became a major junction for the lines to Bristol and Oxford.

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small workshops, stables and

The town has a long commercial history, and was once the home of many prosperous textile merchants.

On the left of the picture is the long 900-ft bridge of sixteen arches, and on the opposite bank is the Town Arms. To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small work- shops, stables

Upton-on-Severn is a pleasant country town on the right bank of the Severn, some ten miles south of Worcester.

The well-known local Dowsett family gave this beautiful moated manor house to the town.

Thomas Hardy described Swanage as '…a seaside village, lying snugly within two headlands as between a finger and thumb'.

This photograph and O1033 are particularly interesting because they were taken not long before work began on the construction of the new town of Telford.