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The church has a three-gabled east end and a west tower rather reminiscent of a Devon church.

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.

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.

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

In the distance is the Wish Tower, one of the Martello tower fortlets built during the Napoleonic Wars.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened the Dock Tower in 1855, and Albert rode by lift the 309 feet to the top. It was designed after the style of the Palazzo Publico in Sienna, Italy.

Its impressive four-square tower stands reinforced by octagonal turrets capped with 18th-century pyramids. Today the tower is not so visible, because the trees have grown larger.

The fire-escape ladder propped against the Clock Tower may have been in use to attend the clock face; it appears in that position in a number of pictures of that period.

Today, the thick coating of ivy on the tower and all the ornamental shrubs and trees are gone, allowing the tower on its mound to be seen in all its glory.

This view shows the west towers, one either side of the large Perpendicular window, with the low central tower bringing up the rear.

Montacute strengthened the fortress defences, adding a new tower on the eastern side and a twin-towered gateway.

The church here, as in many coastal parishes, has a very tall tower to act as a landmark: Winterton church tower is 130 feet high.

This view looks towards the Jubilee Clock Tower, with Lumley Road to its left.

Based on Blackpool Tower, New Brighton' tower was built between 1897 and 1900 at a cost of £120,000.

The church tower is that of St John the Baptist, which stands over one of the medieval gateways into the city.

This view of the Broadway shows the clock tower, with its three faces.

This view looks towards the Jubilee Clock Tower, with Lumley Road to its left.

Situated at Barbourne, the tower originally formed a vital component of the waterworks, built in 1770. A waterwheel lifted water from the Severn to a storage tank at the top of the tower.

Boats could enter the castle this way – there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.

This is a tall brick tower mill with a large extension grafted onto it to house a steam-driven mill. It had eight sails, as we can see from the eight-armed cross on the windshaft.

Dominating the village is the 15th-century church of St Oswald's, its tower gifted by Robert Washington.

This view was photographed from the tower of the Westgate.