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The wonderfully over-the- top Baroque town hall is a triumph for the town, and much better than the pallid neo-classical one it replaced.

Richard Rigg opened his Windermere Hotel in 1847—the same year as the Kendal and Windermere Railway reached the town— and his yellow-and-black coaches provided a connecting service from the adjacent

In all these photographs the tower of St Lawrence's church dominates the town. And

The narrow steeply- sloping Union Street, east of the church of St James, leads the eye northward out of town and towards the stark ridge of Peaked Down; its visible notch gives the down

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

A deck chair and a roll of wire fencing stand outside the ironmongers in Spring Street.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

This time the position was right: it was about one and a half miles out of town, and set in the new suburbs along the Cliftonville Road.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

It stands above the town, and has staggering views over the Bay, so it is little wonder that the Great Western Railway turned it into a hotel.

Budleigh Golf Club was created on what had been common land on the cliffs to the west of the town, and is now known as East Devon Golf Club.

Described by Pevsner as 'uninteresting', the Town Hall was designed by J W Beaumont and built in 1883-85. The clock and bells on the building were donated by Joshua Bradley.

Broad Street boasts a great variety of inns and hotels.

Another open area of Newton Abbot is Decoy, to the south of town. With playing fields, a recreation area, a lake and woodlands, it is very popular with the local townspeople.

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

We are further down into the town and looking back up towards the clock tower, which is just visible.

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

Today the name Long Barn is associated with a modern housing development, but in 1965 the area was still open countryside and farmland.

The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King's town at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was Edward the Confessor.

Regrettably, local stone was not used but luckily the house is on the outskirts of town and not easily visible. It was modernised in the 1960s.

Stone proclaims itself to be a 'Canal Town' and reaching it from this river bridge involves crossing the Trent & Mersey Canal.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.