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Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise.

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

Its creation was vital to form a refined loop around which the wealthy and fashionable could travel.

This most attractive of towns is sets amongst woods and gentle rolling hills.

The saviour was a young girl whose family had been dispossessed of their property; this was immediately restored to them and the Tudor rose, the family emblem of the Tudors which shows the union

The Corn Exchange This was built to provide a covered building where corn (wheat, barley, and other cereals) could be bought and sold; its building must indicate an ever-burgeoning corn trade,

There were many Lancashire towns going through the same revitalisation, but in the frenzy of change many of the grand Victorian buildings were lost.

And fair enough - the road signs to Chelmsford do not shout 'Historic Cathedral City' - they say things like 'County town since 1250', or 'The birthplace of radio'.

The saviour was a young girl whose family had been dispossessed of their property; this was immediately restored to them and the Tudor rose, the family emblem of the Tudors which shows the union

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage. The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.

They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions. The Prideaux garage remains, although their agencies now seem to be Jaguar and Austin.

Church Street leads down to St. Mary-le-Gill Church.

On the other hand, in a town where immigration has been below the national average, multi-culturalism has made comparatively little impact.

The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

Behind the disused mill was the Wharfedale Brewery, which supplied many of the town's fifteen taverns. The brewery closed during the First World War, and was then used as billets for troops.

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

The row soon became known as 'the ham and egg parade', and very popular it was too. But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

The window was glazed by the Pease family in memory of Lady Pease of the nearby Hutton and Pinchinthorpe estate.

The impact on Twickenham of the carnage of the First World War can be seen by the many local names on the war memorials around the town and neighbouring districts.

The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.

'A town built for pleasure' is possibly the best description for Southport.

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

Sellargarth was a small farming hamlet close to the abbey, and the population were all tenants of the abbey.