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In the distance is the town centre church of St Alban and St Michael, 1933, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a pleasing design with its lantern tower and simple Gothic detailing.

The church suffered Victorian restoration and correction of ‘incorrect’ window tracery at the hands of Arthur Blomfield in 1881, but fortunately the 14th- century timber-framed and shingled tower and

It was once the seat of the powerful Douglas family, wardens of the Border Marches and lords of Galloway.

The Town House extends from there to the taller tower, built about 1870. The statue is of George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, as the inscription on the plinth poignantly explains.

As we look toward West Pier from the west, we see the landward pavilion at the right, then the tower of the Metropole to its left. Nearer the camera are a range of somewhat disparate stucco fronts.

(Sheffield City Council Planning Department) The view over the part of the city centre from the tower of the town hall in 1969 towards the Hyde Park flats (left background) and Park Hill flats (centre

In front of the church is a three-storey tower which forms a part of the Old Hall.

The setting of the 14th-century battlemented tower and its crocketed recessed steeple is ideal. Internally, the church has a good late 12th-century north arcade and a later south arcade.

The church has an exceptional 15th-century tower, built of squared granite blocks and 97 feet high.

Gorges' castle celebrated the Holy Trinity in its construction: it was triangular in shape, with a round tower on each of the three corners. Bodenham was extensively altered during the 19th century.

The Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth soon after the conquest on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913, but this was replaced by the shell-keep and tower that still stand

These terraces of neat Edwardian bay-windowed houses survive, and lead towards the Town Hall with its tower.

It belonged to Tower's, who were boot makers. The Lion & Lamb on the right displays the star trademark of the Northampton Brewery Company.

In the background is the soaring tower of the 15th-century 180ft long church of St Peter Mancroft, with its peal of twelve bells and concealed hammerbeam roof.

This unusual viewpoint is from the tower of St Helen's parish church; we are looking south over the roofs of Brick Alley Almshouses and their panelled chimney stacks. These were rebuilt in 1718-20.

Church Street leads to the large parish church of St Mary Magdalene; its 15th-century tower is topped by a twisted spire, which was added in 1846.The Swan & Royal Hotel stands out on the right of

The church of St Nicholas retains remnants of its Norman origins, but the fabric is mainly of a period around 1300, including the tower and tall broach spire.

On the left is the King's Gate, on the right the Chamberlain Tower. The high curtain wall enabled Caernarvon to be provided with three levels of defence, ie two levels of casemates and the wall walk.

Here we see the gatehouse and the moat of the tower-keep. As a professional soldier, William Herbert had fought for and been knighted by Henry VI.

In the late 15th century the Cheynes built the first part of the house, the hall, tower and the rest of the west range in the distance, an amorphous shape in brick under all the ivy, but

Nearer the camera is the bell turret of the old Market Hall, and beyond on the other side of the valley is the tower and spire of the parish church and to its left, beyond the cedar tree, is The Bury,

Christ Church was erected in 1838 and comprised a chancel, nave and a low tower, but it was soon replaced by a new building designed by Maxwell & Tuke.

The village church of St Simon and St Jude's has a semi-detached Norman tower and a sepulchral cross slab bearing the arms of the Bardolf family, who were Lords of the Manor of Birling.

The nave is partly Norman with 13th-century west bays, and there is, unusually, a detached 15th-century bell tower.