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The main Huddersfield to Manchester railway makes its way along the steep side of the valley, and it has to cross many side valleys.

Another view of the High Street at a less congested point and on a very hot and sunny summer's day: the shopkeepers have lowered their sun-blinds to protect their wares, and the lady on the left has

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road.

Birkenhead is a surprisingly large and sprawling town, and has taken in its outlying villages to become suburbs.

In the distance the modern cooling towers of Ferrybridge Power Station and in the middle distance the Aire and Calder Navigation parallel with the River Aire.

At the turn of the century Wetherby was described in some tourist guides as 'a town of no interest'.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market.

The West Lodge and Gates are at the head of De Parys Avenue.

In fact, Feckenham was virtually a town when Redditch was barely even a village.

The buildings of the new town of Fleetwood were built from 1836 onwards.

The well-laid-out Hamilton Square in the centre of Birkenhead is named after the town's founder, John Laird, in honour of his Scottish mother.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

The parish church of St John was described as 'one of the architectural ornaments of the town', and the interior came in for much praise.

Note the engine shed and the load gauge in the goods yard.

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

Magnus Barefoot built a timber fort on St Patrick's Isle in about 1098-1103; the bulk of the surviving fortifications date from the time of Thomas, First Earl of Derby, and were constructed in 1460-1504

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

At the time of the Conquest, Norwich was both an important town and a major port.

The village expanded with the boot and shoe works in the later 19th century, but the original stone village survives.

There was a time when Barnard Castle was one of a number of prosperous towns in the Palatinate; the others were Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sedgefield, Staindrop and Wolsingham.

Named after the founder of the steel works, this imposing brick building in Rockingham Road was constructed in 1937 to cater for the large number of schoolchildren coming into the town and to ease

King George is commemorated by a statue in the town and a carved chalk figure on the hills nearby.