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In 1796 the old tower was pulled down and a new one built, and in 1808 the main body of the church was demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £842.

Looking north-west past the village cross, we see the church with its curiously plain tower and mean spire.

We have already seen the Hussey Tower in Boston, while Lord Cromwell's mighty brick tower keep of the 1430s can be seen for miles across the flat Fens of Holland.

The original castle consisted of a three-storey tower with a large room on each floor, with other rooms off the projections. The tower parapet is equipped with machiolations.

The red and white pinnacles of the tower, just visible in the picture, remind one of the tower of a Tudor house.

The church on the left is St John's, the tower of which is topped off with a small spirelet and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

We have already seen the Hussey Tower in Boston, while Lord Cromwell's mighty brick tower keep of the 1430s can be seen for miles across the flat Fens of Holland.

This is a very tall brick tower mill with a boat shaped cap, four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. Built in 1789, it ceased work after lightning damage in 1940.

This view looks across the harbour and the boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement

Seventy years before there was a timber quay under the walls of the Tower, with tall-masted sailing ships edging through the raised bascules of Tower Bridge.The river here was thick with islands of

The 15th-century grey tower of St Mildred's Church, with its bold crocketed pinnacles, dominates the centre of this small town, which stands 322 feet above sea level; it was formerly used as a beacon

The machicolated heights of William Herbert's gatehouse and closet towers look down on the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap Thomas.

This photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

The tower was used as a pele tower by villagers, who hid there from marauding Scots.

The Gardens took their name from a water tower that formerly stood here. Today they accommodate cricket pitches, a bowling green and formal gardens, as well as tennis.

Our clock tower is showing signs of age in this photograph from half a century ago. The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.

Cow Tower was built on the River Wensum in 1378 as a boom tower, controlling the flow of river traffic at the point where the city wall ended.

The original west front collapsed along with its tower on Easter Monday 1786, bringing down much of the nave with it. The massive noble central tower dates from c1325.

This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.

The raised footway at the top of the towers, 140 feet above the level of the river, was closed in 1909 after a spate of suicides.

It is said that Quilter added a new tower for each million he made - by 1905 there were nine towers.

The 12th-century church tower is built of locally-mined clunch. It was used as a watch tower, and stands above the spring and the castle remains where Geoffrey de Manderville lost his life.