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From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

By 1900, Paisley was a smoky industrial town with a population of 80,000.

St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

The Victorian drinking fountain at the far end of the Market Place was given to Wallingford in 1885 by Alderman Hawkins, who ran a draper's shop, Field and Hawkins, in the town.

The Urban District Council of 1895 needed a home, and in 1899 the council offices were built and occupied.

Here we are looking west along Est Street, to the Town Hall and Market Place.

The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place.

We are in the town centre.

The Swan Hotel acquired a multi-level car park to its rear (its first concession to the age of the motor car) and the erstwhile car showrooms at the northern end of Town Bridge were demolished and replaced

The town's wealthier residents lived in sumptuous villas at this end of Newton Abbot.

Its designers considered that this new access to Torquay would help popularise this hitherto quiet end of town.

The road curves attractively to the bowed end of the 18th-century Town Hall.

Looking across from the war memorial in Windsor End, this view shows the range of fine historic buildings, with Georgian and early 19th- century refrontings to earlier Tudor buildings that so characterise

Also lost during the town centre development was the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which had stood on the corner of the Parade and Newhall Street.

Most of the best shops in Walsall are either in the town centre or situated on the edge; between them they pull in thousands of shoppers.

At the opposite end of the High Street from Town Bridge, John Bunyan's staue complements that of John Howard in the Market Place.

With its castle and town established by the Normans at the end of the 11th century, Ludlow was later to become a most important military base controlling the Welsh Marches (or borders).

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells.

Chain and department stores arrived early in Bournemouth, though a large number of family-owned shops survived until the end of the 20th century.

Up until 1810, Ipswich's Butter Market was indeed the scene for the sale of butter and other products.

Amongst other things, this spelt the end of the town's two highly-regarded grammar-technical schools, Fryerns and Barstable.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing.

This was the entertainment centre of the town.