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We are looking up towards the clock tower of the Town Hall, built in 1880 in the French Gothic style by T E Collcutt, the architect of London's Savoy Hotel.

The building is of about 1300 with an unbuttressed west tower of 1707, when its spire was taken down.

This view looks east from the High Street to the west tower of the large medieval parish church. To the left is a former manor house, once the Urban District Council offices.

Beyond is the 14th-century tower of the parish church.

Beyond is part of Lord Burghley's Hospital, then the river, and up the hill in Stamford proper the elegant 160 foot tower and spire of St Mary's Church, a superb 13th-century Early English Gothic structure

The chancel arch and font date from this time, the tower is late 14th-century and the south aisle was added during a restoration of 1531.

Indeed, in this view the superb early 16th-century pinnacled church tower belongs to St Mary's Church in St Neots. Eynesbury's rather humber parish church is behind the photographer.

The church, on the west side of the road, is built in brick with a polygonal bell tower.

About the time this picture was taken, plans by Sheppard Fidler had been accepted for a 461-acre development to include sixteen-storey tower blocks, two shopping centres, schools, community buildings

Peeping out above the inn is the tower of St Michael's Church, one of the oldest in the district.

The church tower was rebuilt in 1875 by R W Johnson.

The east end of the main priory building is shown here, neatly framing the tower of the parish church. Guisborough was regarded for many centuries as the capital of ancient Cleveland.

She married a Manchester Unitarian minister in 1832 and stayed at Lindeth Tower (dated 1816) in Silverdale. From here she described the sunsets and the views across the Kent estuary and the Irish Sea.

Where London’s other bridges are dignified and utilitarian, Tower Bridge, with its ‘daring majesty’ cocks a snook at Victorian formality.

It consisted of an aisleless nave and a narrow west tower with an octagonal spire; the chancel was added in 1900.

These attractive ivy-clad ruins are not as ancient as they look: they are part of the castle constructed as a folly by Walter May along with his 170 foot high tower.

The 12th-century tower and spire of St Mary's Church viewed from the Market Place, a symbol of the mediaeval prosperity brought to this little town from wool-trading.

In the distance is the tower of Holy Trinity Church.

Henry II's great keep stands high above the mural towers of the inner bailey. Henry and his son Richard I transformed Dover into one of the greatest fortresses of the kingdom.

It has a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf. The circular keep has four floors, and the approach from the landward side is by way of a drawbridge.

marvellously atmospheric view along the High Street looks across towards Lincoln's great medieval minster church which dominates the city and the countryside for miles around – the beautiful central tower is

This is a stone tower windmill with four common, cloth spread sails. It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

Not to be left behind in any respect, Blackpool now has an Eiffel Tower of its own.

Called Earls Barton because of its connections with the earls of Northampton, it is mainly noted for its powerful Anglo-Saxon church tower, seen here dominating the view.