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Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881

The Hall was opened in 1874 by Princess Mary of Cambridge for use as a place for meetings, lectures, lantern shows, recitals and so on.

By the mid-1890s, most Lancashire cotton towns enjoyed a full Wakes Week.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

During the 18th and 19th centuries many buildings (including the old railway station) were constructed with rock quarried from the beach.

Around a hundred years before this picture was taken, the cobblestones of Newark Market Place would have echoed to the clatter of stagecoaches and carriers' waggons.

Despite carrying the title of Ypres Castle in 1912, this structure was called the Badding Tower when it was built in the 13th century, and was a place of refuge during French raids on the town.

The idea for Harlow New Town dates from the late 1940s. It was seen as a way to relieve some of the congestion in London.

Even in the mid-fifties, Edenbridge retained some of its atmosphere as a small agricultural town, strung out along the Roman road which reached out across the Weald from Lewes to London.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

He said of the event 'I stood under a large tree and called most of the inhabitants of the town . . . it seemed as if all that heard were almost persuaded to be Christians'.

A popular stop-off for cyclists and walkers from the local towns long ago, this small settlement included the well known Cross Keys Inn, now derelict - as are most of the other buildings we see here.

The curving parade remains little altered in 1965, but already shop fronts are becoming gaudy and fascias oversized.

South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

The tall building on the right, where the delivery vehicle is parked outside, is that of the London and Provincial Bank.

The horizontal distribution of the buildings shows how the houses had to be built in terraces, thanks to the town's hilly location.

The architectural quality falls off somewhat in the southern part of the town. This view looks along the London Road to The Square, with Hinwick Road to the left.

A new town was laid out from 1876 by the Earl of Scarbrough; in 1881 it acquired a splendid pier, seen here and unrecognisable to the modern visitor.

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

The town was once under the control of the powerful de Montfort family. At Evesham on 4 August 1265, Simon de Montfort led the barons against the forces of Henry III.

On the right is what was once the most important building in the town: the Railway Institute, built by the directors of the railway.