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Caption For Pakenham, Windmill C1955

This is a typical Suffolk brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. The mill was used as the subject of a TV interlude film in 1950s, and was watched by millions of viewers.

Caption For York, St Mary's Tower C1885

This was the water tower for St Mary's Abbey. At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.

Caption For York, Bootham Bar & The Minster 1893

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

Caption For Chedgrave, Church C1955

The unusual square tower at the north-east corner is thatched with Norfolk reed.

Caption For Blackpool, From Central Pier 1896

The reflections of the Tower and the sailing boats kiss the sea on a brilliantly sunny, flat-calm day.

Caption For Stanion, The Village C1960

This view from the fields south-east of Stanion shows the small Northamptonshire village centred on the medieval church, with its fine 15th-century tower with broach spire.

Caption For Lincoln, Castle Gates C1955

Inside the Castle, the photographer looks back to the gatehouse, which is basically 14th-century over a Norman archway, although the drum towers on this side are early 19th-century.

Caption For Sunninghill, Church 1901

The yellow brick west tower has a re-used Norman zig-zag arch to the doorway.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church & Memorial Cross 1922

The Perpendicular tower is 179 feet high, with a battlemented spire. There are four stages with the upper, bell stage, having three openings.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church Interior 1922

The amazing tall tower was probably built before the nave, as buttresses appear inside the building.

Caption For Cardiff, St John's Church Interior 1893

Displaying characteristic taste and restraint John Prichard, the diocesan architect, left the medieval tower untouched but sympathetically added a vestry and extra aisles.

Caption For Flookburgh, Church Of St John The Baptist 1901

There is no clock in the tower at this date; the clock was installed as a memorial to those of the parish who fell in the Second World War.

Caption For Grange Over Sands, Clock Tower 1914

The clock tower was offered to the railway to be built by the station, but the offer was declined – so it was built by the parish church.

Caption For Warminster, Christ Church C1950

Pevsner describes it as 'a long church, W tower with tall, heavy pinnacles. Tall two-light Perpendicular windows'.

Caption For Westbury Leigh, The Church C1955

The tower was added in 1888. Today the church is part community hall and part place of worship.

Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965

Beside the imposing 19th-century bank building, which overlooks the corner of Blackburn Road, rises a naked steel tower, a herald of the monotonous shopping developments that have robbed

Caption For Liverpool, The Royal Liver Building C1955

The famous Liver birds, which gave the city its name, look out across the Pier Head from clock towers 295 feet tall, whose faces are each 25 feet in diameter and larger than those of Big Ben

Caption For Preston, Dock, North Side C1960

The square tower to its left is the neighbouring Anglican church of St Mark's.

Caption For Northallerton, North End C1960

In the background on the left is the parish church of All Saints, a stately building restored in 1884 but with a fine 15th-century tower.

Caption For Wakefield, Wood Street C1953

More evidence of Coronation flags and bunting is shown in this view of Wood Street, Wakefield, looking up towards the clock tower of the Town Hall, built in 1880 in the French Gothic style by T E Collcutt

Caption For St Austell, Church 1890

The late-15th century tower of Holy Trinity church is one of the finest in Cornwall; its west side has carved figures depicting the Trinity, the Annunciation and the Resurrection.

Caption For Carew, From North West 1893

The glazing of the many paned windows and impressive oriels was never completed, thanks to Perrot's unfortunate incarceration in the Tower of London.

Caption For Combe Martin, 1930

Remains still litter the valley: the odd shape in the field above and to the left of the church tower is an old mine.

Caption For Aberdare, View From Top Of Craig C1960

The area on the right, opposite the lower entrance to the park, was known as `Commin Bach`.