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During the Second World War the town was declared safe for both industry and people.

owing to the growth of cheap foreign holidays and an industrial recession.

Classic was denounced as vulgar and pagan.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

Plans are also under way for economic developments that should benefit the privately owned port of Boston and the people and businesses dependent on it.

It changed the look of the town.

The town had two brickworks, the one on the Warren operating from 1750 to 1919 and one on the Porlock road operating from 1897 to 1947.

down, and nobody appeared to be very interest- ed in it.

Pullman's Westbrook Mill produced soft, chamois type leathers; Gay & Co in Ockford Road worked on small skins such as rabbit; and Rea and Fisher's by the railway, the heavier hides.

This shows the far end of the Avenue, looking into York Street.

The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

Before 1984, dramatic life in the town had centred on the Ebbisham Hall, built in 1929 by a church group called the Epsom Brotherhood.

FOR MUCH of its existence Teddington has been regarded as a quiet town between the busier Richmond, Twickenham and Kingston centres on the River Thames.

The Broadway site was then demolished and replaced by a parade of retail units with offices above.

The new library and mayoral suite were seen as the first phase of a new block of civic buildings, though in fact it was another 30 years before the rest of the site - the Civic Centre and Civic

The inscription described her as a 'rat catcher who has lodged in many a town and travelled far and near.

While many of the buildings on the right remain, several were pulled down in the 1980s and their sites now form part of a supermarket car park.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

An interesting view showing the Ha'penny pedestrian bridge across Rifts Wood and the road bridge between the old town and new town.

A panoramic view of the town and Castle showing how the latter dominated the scene even in 1955.

A panormaic view of the town and castle showing how the latter dominated the scene even in 1955.

Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.

We start in the Market Place of Grantham, a town of 30,000 whose medieval wealth was based on wool from the sheep grazing the Kesteven fields.

On the right the Old Post Office Buildings, faced in red terracotta, were a triumphant memorial to the Victorian splendour of the town, and to Gotch and Saunders, the architects.