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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.

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

The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting

A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.

Also scheduled for redevelopment was the remaining old part of the town between Church Street and the river, which had suffered bomb damage in the war.

Along the rivers and the shoreline, there are still miles of sparsely-inhabited wilderness.

family, the Booths of Dunham Massey and the Traffords of Trafford Park.

The Moot Hall has now been renovated, and looks worthy of its status as the Town Hall.

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.

Bridgnorth is really two towns, High Town at the top of a steep hill and Low Town at the bottom.

Shopping trends have changed since the early days of the New Town.

The rebels swept on to burn more towns before their defeat, and Colchester was rebuilt and walled in stone.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

WALKING AROUND Walsall town centre today there is little to show visitors what the town looked like in its early years.

Up to 1974, Eccles was a town in its own right.

In 1233 the town of Ludlow was given permission to build town walls.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

Moving south from Thrapston we reach Raunds, another small Northamptonshire market town transformed into a Victorian boot and shoe manufacturing town.

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons

Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.

The bustling town of Huddersfield, like so many other Pennine towns, was founded on the wealth won from the 19th-century explosion in the worsted and woollen industries.

That careful observer tells us that 'the welthe of the towne standith most by draping, and noe towne of England at this present tyme maketh so many cloathes yearly as this towne doth'.

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.